[GH85Carrera]

When I talked to my grandnephew I told him he would get the biggest performance boost with a SSD. He said his parents had not "done a graduation" gift as yet. He called back 20 minutes later after talking to his dad and asked me to order one, and get it installed. So it is on the way. Should be here today, likely late afternoon. I will clone it and get it installed. Likely I will wipe the old drive, and install it as a second drive and make it the scratch drive and backup drive.

It got me to thinking about when I was 16. My computer was a pencil and paper. Calculators were still every expensive. Somewhere I have a picture of my first $100. It was a couple of 20s several 10s and 5s and ones. And a roll of quarters and dimes. It came out to $100! That same hundred bucks today is $659.39. I handed it all to my dad as the down payment on my first car. The 1960 VW bug that cost me $600.

So my first car was essentially a $4,000 car today.

For my graduation gift I really really wanted one of the new fangled digital watches. Those were still very expensive so I got a Cross pen and mechanical pencil set. I still have the pencil, and I think the pen disappeared in one of my moves.