Time Capsule

29th August, 1994

"Remember these times Dave? - Work all week and play all weekend. Yes, the time of the mortgage, the mustang and Menasco (3M). Collecting Vinyl (still got any of those you old bastard or have you flogged them for a song?). In 1994 a Shure M70B cartridge was $19.95 at Radio Shack, can you find one now? - Perhaps I should have bought a few huh!!.Karen must still be around and bugging you still, what house are you in, didn't pick up the spade did you?..Anyway, hands across time. I pick up my beer and drink to you sir. I hope you have a long and happy life...Cheers! (gulp, gulp)."

A few days later we paid off a big lump of our mortgage and we owed less than thirty-five thousand on the principal and we were aiming to destroy it by the following summer. The reference there about picking up the spade again was directed at the mortgage removal process, that at some point in all our lives, we should put the spade down, stop digging ourselves into debt and fill in the hole.

Wise words from the younger Dave.