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What treasures from your past have you dug up lately?
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About a year ago, my digging up of treasure was literal. When I was younger, my family lived out in the country where there was no trash service and no dump nearby. Our dump was a sort of limbo area between property lines. I went back there and did a little digging and all of a sudden out of the dirt came a matched pair of plastic toy German Luger pistols that I had forgotten all about. I estimate they were buried for almost 40 years! They have Made in U.S.A. on them. Toys like that have been mostly made in China for a long time. Except for the little plastic front sight being broken off one, the guns are in excellent condition. It's amazing. They have a new-found place of honor in my home now.
For a long time I've been working on write-ups of 35+ years of Dungeon Mastering. It started off with simply trying to list out the stats and basic careers of all the player characters and NPCs — but I eventually realized that was such dry reading that it wasn't worth it. Eventually I started annotating each entry with personal comments on how a character got his name, or what was going on behind the scenes at a particular game session, or the unusual magic items that were introduced here and there, or foolish decisions in the course of the games by the players. Not to mention a lot of foolish decisions by the DM. It's basically turned into my memoirs. And people who've seen it do find it to be entertaining.
in the process, though, I've had to research and re-read my surviving notes so as to record the stuff as accurately as possible. And I've unearthed all sorts of new gaming anecdotes and stories that I'd forgotten about. (Which is why I'm doing the whole project in the first place, so it doesn't all get forgotten.)
Not a treasure for anyone else, but kind of a sentimental treasure for me... my old clay phasers from childhood. For some unknown reason, I never thought to employ a straight rule to help with the lines, to make them look more clean and accurate. But... I guess it kind of lends a certain "naive" charm instead.
First version, phaser I & II
Photo 2, Photo 3
I remember when they came out of the kiln--I was so pissed off that the glaze color didn't come up as I'd hoped. But in retrospect, it gave it more of an artistic improvisational flair. I was 13 when I made these.
Hand phaser, 2nd attempt
Photo 2, Photo 3
This came out better than the 1st phasers, because now I had the "Making of Star Trek" paperback to use as a guide. But I really should have used a ruler to keep the lines straight and scored the clay after it dried to smooth out and even up surfaces. Still, not too bad considering I was only 16.
First version, phaser I & II
Photo 2, Photo 3
I remember when they came out of the kiln--I was so pissed off that the glaze color didn't come up as I'd hoped. But in retrospect, it gave it more of an artistic improvisational flair. I was 13 when I made these.
Hand phaser, 2nd attempt
Photo 2, Photo 3
This came out better than the 1st phasers, because now I had the "Making of Star Trek" paperback to use as a guide. But I really should have used a ruler to keep the lines straight and scored the clay after it dried to smooth out and even up surfaces. Still, not too bad considering I was only 16.
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Those are fantastic. When I was 14, I could barely manage to make my own Pot Noodle.Not a treasure for anyone else, but kind of a sentimental treasure for me... my old clay phasers from childhood. For some unknown reason, I never thought to employ a straight rule to help with the lines, to make them look more clean and accurate. But... I guess it kind of lends a certain "naive" charm instead.
First version, phaser I & II
Photo 2, Photo 3
I remember when they came out of the kiln--I was so pissed off that the glaze color didn't come up as I'd hoped. But in retrospect, it gave it more of an artistic improvisational flair. I was 12 when I made these.
Hand phaser, 2nd attempt
Photo 2, Photo 3
This came out better than the 1st phasers, because now I had the "Making of Star Trek" paperback to use as a guide. But I really should have used a ruler to keep the lines straight and scored the clay after it dried to smooth out and even up surfaces. Still, not too bad considering I was only 14.
When I was little, bread would come wrapped in a plastic bag with a small square of plastic with a hole, top centre, to pinch the bag closed. These were replaced years ago, with a sticky plastic strip.
Yesterday, I found a loaf sealed with the old fashioned plastic tag.
Not really a treasure, but a blast from the past.
Yesterday, I found a loaf sealed with the old fashioned plastic tag.
Not really a treasure, but a blast from the past.
We still have those. I play hockey in the kitchen with my cat Charlie with them. She usually wins.
We still use those in Canada too. If you want me to send you some, let me know!
We also use a slightly larger and thicker version of that plastic tag to seal our milk bags.
We still use those in Canada too. If you want me to send you some, let me know!
We also use a slightly larger and thicker version of that plastic tag to seal our milk bags.
Milk bags? Milk comes in cartons or bottles, surely?
I’ve only bought bags for expressed milk. What other type is there?
Well, yes, it also comes in cartons. The 1 L and 2 L sizes come in cartons.
If you buy the 4 L size (which I tend to), it comes in bags:
(You can see at the top where the tag seals the bag.)
Inside the outer bag are three individual sealed bags. Just put one of the bags in your pitcher, snip off the corner, and you're good to go!
Interesting. We don’t have anything like that here.Well, yes, it also comes in cartons. The 1 L and 2 L sizes come in cartons.
If you buy the 4 L size (which I tend to), it comes in bags:
(You can see at the top where the tag seals the bag.)
Inside the outer bag are three individual sealed bags. Just put one of the bags in your pitcher, snip off the corner, and you're good to go!
Some milk, I remembered, does come in bags, sort of. At my old job, the canteen had a refrigerated milk dispenser that took a large box, with a plastic bag inside. The milk came out through a rubber teet that was pinched closed by a spring, and released by holding a cup against it. They were heavy and awkward to replace.
Boxes of wine and bags of milk! What will we think up next?
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Boxes of wine and bags of milk! What will we think up next?
The wine is in a bag in a box.
Sacks of shit?Boxes of wine and bags of milk! What will we think up next?
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