How interesting. So did you like "Somewhere in Time" witrh Jane seymour??? and Christopher Reeves? (I think I have the actors correct)??? I loved that one, also love Quantum leap and I think the name may be the time machine

I think that that Charlie Chaplin clip was photoshopped.

Don't know what to make of the clip. Sure do understand the part about no one to share with.....very clearly.....sigh...

I miss the sharing so much, who else cares about these familiar exchanges. Ugh. Hug, Donna

I don't think it was photoshopped. I think it is one of those old fashioned hearing-aids.

I loved "Somewhere in Time," one of the best. I haven't seen it in years. Dh was a Quantum Leap fan and got me hooked. We also liked The Final Countdown.

that's the movie that came to mind reading your post. And the show you mention was so good too! There was an old movie where the guy had a time maching and landed back in the cave days..know what you mean about sharing...had that happen today. Caught myself ready to say..."Hey Hon..." sigh... Hugs your way...

If you choose to read through this you will find that it has very little to do with being a widow or a widower. It has everything to do with being a momentary distraction away from that topic on purpose.

I love all things science or science fiction. I have seen "Somewhere in Time" multiple times and have it on DVD.

My wife would often watch things with me but had a difficult time wrapping her mind around the concepts they purported so we had more than one interesting conversation about the possibilities.

As so many have said it's the not having someone to share with that is the hard part.

I'm undecided about the possibility of a "Big Foot" (except for my friend Len who wears a size 33 shoe) or UFOs (even though I was hit by one once only to realize upon the examination of my right ear the left behind residue of tartar sauce made it more likely to be a fish sandwich than a alien space craft.)

I love the idea that we as humans may not be as smart as we think we are. The possibility of the unknown is hugely interesting.

The last couple years I have been hooked on the TV series "Fringe" but frankly doubt my wife would have enjoyed it or the mental exercises that go into trying to comprehend it's more bizarre elements. She wasn't even a big fan of the Star Trek series though she would sit through them with me sometimes.

I read the story "The Time Traveler's Wife" a while ago and I have seen the movie as well and found them both fascinating in a mind bending sort of way. I liked the book much more than the movie just for the record. Either way they are good entertainment. What could be more interesting than a love story with a sci-fi twist put in a nearly believable setting.

Even more fun than dreaming of the possibilities I like to understand them as well so I did a little internet research about the clip to try and satisfy my curiosity a bit. One link led to another and I ended up looking at pictures that could well explain the mystery of what the woman was doing. The photos could explain it away easily but you have to judge for yourself. Sometimes it is just more fun to believe there are monsters and aliens and perhaps the odd time traveler among us. Personally I believe there are angels among us and to me that is even more mind boggling than a visitor from another time would be.

I watch the science and history channels on TV a lot and have been called a nerd by my kids for it.

I watch Monster Quest even though they never actually seem to "catch" the monsters or even enough to prove them or disprove them just raise more possibilities and more questions. River Monsters seems about the same, they always prove what the locals know to be true but never seem to catch the monster itself.

I chuckle through the UFO theory shows and love the idea of alien beings stored in a giant pickle jar in a government lab someplace and thousands of people being able to keep their mouths shut (except for the one on TV that swears they saw them but were threatened by the government to keep quiet.)

One of my high school friends with whom I still converse is a paranormal investigator in addition to his day job. We have had some very interesting conversations about the weird and unexplainable. I have some daytime pictures of a haunted cemetery in our area but so far have left the night time exploration up to my friend and my morbidly weird sister. I had to work Halloween but that might have been an interesting night to go check the place out.

There are a good many things about this old world that we can't understand and perhaps never will and there is a certain element to not knowing the truth about them that keeps them interesting. How dull things would be if we understood completely who, how and why about things like Stonehenge, Easter Island, the pyramids, those bizarre ditches that when viewed from the sky form patterns and figures.

I crossed paths with a guy and discovered that he and his kids are living in the house my grandfather built for my grandmother and himself sometime in the 1920s. As we were talking about the house he told me that the place is haunted because a guy murdered his wife and committed suicide there before my grandparents moved in. He went on to tell me that the house is over 200 years old according to the realtor who he dealt with.

I wouldn't argue that the house wasn't haunted because my sister, brother and I were all convinced that the rear bedroom was haunted and only learned years later that our grandfather had passed away back there. That's another story though.

I wanted to correct the guy and assure him that the house isn't that old and nobody ever died there of anything but natural causes so if it is haunted it's probably just my grumpy old grandfather. I also wanted to send him a copy of the old photograph that was taken when the house was still under construction. In the end I didn't say anything and just let him live with the ghosts and urban legends.

A Canadian friend that I know through flying keeps promising to recite from memory a poem called "The Cremation of Sam Mcgee" when we have a campfire at a fly-in. I could easily look it up and read it for myself but probably won't. I think it would be more fun to have someone recite it. Besides, we all love to tease the Canadians about the funny way they talk.

What does it all add up too? I think some of us never fully outlive our desire for a good scary story beside the campfire or the possibility of a hundreds of years old sea serpent living in a Scottish lake. I actually prefer some of the scary and weird things I can't explain over some of the horrifying realitys.
realities.

Try and have a little fun now and then.
hugs,
Matt

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