November 28th, 2019:

	I came to the realization last night that my formative years are 
now commodified and conveniently placed on MicroSD cards.

I received a BezosCo package yesterday, the Turbo Everdrive I'd ordered 
from Krikzz.  For those of you unfamiliar with the Everdrives, they are 
MicroSD card solutions for various game consoles of yesteryear.  The Turbo 
Everdrive is made for the PC Engine/Turbografx-16 console, but others 
exist for the Nintendo Famicom, NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, the 
Sega Master System, Game Gear, and Genesis/32x, and so on.  They allow the 
user to store ROM images on SD card for use with the console.  It's a 
handy solution for those of us with large, multi-platform game collections 
and don't want to dig for an obscure cartridge...

As I tested the Turbo Everdrive by playing some of my favourite games, it 
brought back a lot of old memories of hanging out with my brother and 
friends, playing video games, D&D, listening to music, and eating copious 
amounts of junk food.  Thinking about it more, I realized that I have all 
my video games, music, books, D&D and Car Wars stuff, etc, from my 
childhood/teenage years in electronic form nowadays.  MP3s/OGGs of music, 
PDFs of books, magazines, and tabletop RPGs, ROMs of video games, etc

It's really not a huge revelation, I've had most of this stuff in digital 
format for years.  I think it finally hit me that I'd pretty much 
re-collected my childhood and sort-of commodified it...

I've forgotten the point I was going to make, so I'll wrap this up quick.  
The Turbo Everdrive worked great, it'll keep me from having to dig for 
copies of games that are buried on my shelf, and I can't wait for my Game 
Gear Everdrive to arrive.