I'm just glad that the stuff we did in our day still has some plausible deniability, high school yearbook pictures notwithstanding. I had a copy of a 1976 yearbook with me at a restaurant and was looking it over with Terri and the waiter took one look at my picture and exclaimed, "Nice 'doo!"

Facial piercings can be a bit shocking today, but I look at the tatoos and feel a little saddened and embarrassed for the kids since that stuff is really hard to get rid of and you just know it will go out of style some day. Sorry if I'm offending any fellow classmates who have succumbed to the latest fashions and are sporting a few face piercings and tatoos of their own.

For me, the music I like the least is Jazz, which I consider to be insolent noise. I'll take Eminem, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Gangsta Boo, The Wu-Tang Clan, M.O.P. or any other Hip Hop music over Jazz any day, but maybe I'm just different. My all time favorite rock group is Rush whose first album dates back to 1974, our first year at O'Reilly. They just released their 25th album this year (how fitting!) called Vapor Trails and I like it as much as anything they did in the early years. I was pleasantly surprised while attending my nephew's high school graduation this summer that his friends who were performing DJ duties were big Rush fans too. Some music just never goes out of style...