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3. Thanks. I am too.

Reply to daleanime (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 7, 2014, 10:15 PM

Dec 2014

As I get older I'm losing touch with what's out there. Unless it's something like KSP that can appeal as much to middle-aged grumps as it does to tweens, I probably don't know about. Why, in my day we were given a box of rocks, told to build a wireless, and we liked it.

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You had rocks? We had to make do with our toenail clippings Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2014 #4

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