Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

[StarWarsGirl]

This has been a long happening situation for a man that didn't believe he'd live to 30 until I actually reached 31

This was me, but for different reasons. Having cancer at 23 does that to a person.

I hit 30 and people asked how I felt. I'm like, well, the cancer didn't kill me, so pretty good! I told my longtime bestie that I will probably live to 100 if my family history is any indication and encounter every disease known along the way.

(And yes, papilary thyroid cancer is extremely treatable, and we caught it extremely early, partially due to my insistence that something was wrong. My brain still went through periods of "what if this spreads and kills me?" Technically, I still have it, but it still hasn't killed me, so I'm good...)

 

[StarWarsGirl]

My mother turned 60 in January.

Every few days, she tells me "God, I cannot believe I'm 60."

I tell her it could be worse; Dad is 66. Which makes her go "yeah you're right" and move on.

Couple of weeks ago, Dad and I were sitting at the kitchen table on a Sunday morning. He had his paper and goes to the senior section. He goes "I don't need this...I don't need this...I don't need this...this section is for old people."

I'm like, Dad, you ARE old people..."No I'm not"...then why are you reading a newspaper...that was delivered here?

 

[Goofyernmost]

Couple of weeks ago, Dad and I were sitting at the kitchen table on a Sunday morning. He had his paper and goes to the senior section. He goes "I don't need this...I don't need this...I don't need this...this section is for old people."

I'm like, Dad, you ARE old people..."No I'm not"...then why are you reading a newspaper...that was delivered here?

Hell, even I don't do that! And I was in newspaper publishing for a decade or so. At that time (the 1980's) rumors were circling that newspapers were going the way of the dinosaur. I denied that for a number of years, but they were right. I haven't had delivered or even had a newspaper in my hands for almost two decades.

The publishers mantra was... "They can digitize all they want, but if a computer crashes every word can be lost, but print will last forever". That may still be true, but no one seems to care about anything that happened yesterday.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Hell, even I don't do that! And I was in newspaper publishing for a decade or so. At that time (the 1980's) rumors were circling that newspapers were going the way of the dinosaur. I denied that for a number of years, but they were right. I haven't had delivered or even had a newspaper in my hands for almost two decades.

The publishers mantra was... "They can digitize all they want, but if a computer crashes every word can be lost, but print will last forever". That may still be true, but no one seems to care about anything that happened yesterday.

He does mostly get digital issues now, but he'll sometimes get print copies if they're offering it for free with digital.

I got published in the Baltimore Sun last year. We did get a print copy and saved it, haha.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

The publishers mantra was... "They can digitize all they want, but if a computer crashes every word can be lost, but print will last forever". That may still be true, but no one seems to care about anything that happened yesterday.

I was telling this story yesterday...

At a previous job, we had a controller who had refused to save sales tax returns on our shared drives. He was convinced it wasn't secure.

He left when covid hit. We couldn't get to sales tax returns because they were in a filing cabinet...in the building...that was closed. And then we had issues because accounting went remote post pandemic and we couldn't get to a prior return because we weren't there.

Every time someone says paper is better/lasts, I'm like "uh, no."

 

[Goofyernmost]

I was telling this story yesterday...

At a previous job, we had a controller who had refused to save sales tax returns on our shared drives. He was convinced it wasn't secure.

He left when covid hit. We couldn't get to sales tax returns because they were in a filing cabinet...in the building...that was closed. And then we had issues because accounting went remote post pandemic and we couldn't get to a prior return because we weren't there.

Every time someone says paper is better/lasts, I'm like "uh, no."

Sure, but this is 2026, the written word was trusted in the 1980's to be the only one that was going to last until the end of time. That may or may not be true, check with me in 100 years or so and I will bet I will be able to show you a newspaper printed in 1865 and you will be able to read it. I'm not sure that anything not printed out will be readable even from 2026.