Nobody ever believes we used to sneak a parents car out, throw it up on two wheels, see how far we could go. It's really easy to do, never turned one over. Some friends tried to get me to show them in a volvo wagon this past new year, but I declined. Being old enough to legally drive takes the fun out of it.

Nobody made the canons we did. Pringles chip can, duct taped to the mouth end of a cola can, punch a hole in the bottom. A tennis ball rolls in snug. Lighter fluid, skake, and light.

I was looking up a plastics mfg process on an engineering forum, but most questions got few replies. But the potato gun thread was 20 miles long, hot with debate and controversy. A very conservative engineer friend of mine confirms that blowing stuff up is the root of all engineering.

   We also used to sneak into lost river cave and try to find a connection to another cave behind the old mall. Recently found a book on the history of the cave, with interesting things like the James gang hid in it, and it was closed in the 1970's because of chemical pollutants in the river. Bout the time we were neck deep in it and using it for bong water. Guess I'm dead too.

   Never did anything with animals except get stoned with a little cat that never got very big.