My box

by Duf Anything and Everything

This is my box.  I have had this box for at least 30 years if not longer.  I have no idea where the box came from, who gave it to me or anything else about it’s origination.  I just know it’s my box.  I have a long pattern of holding on to material items for incredibly long periods of time.  This box, my 7th grade camouflage t-shirt and 20 year old lunch box are all good examples.

As you can see my box is adorned with stickers, mostly of NFL teams.  When I was young I had a great idea.  I wrote a letter to each and every team I could get an address for and asked them if they could send me stuff.  Looking back, I am curious how I actually got the addresses to send the letters to since the internet was not around.  Anyway as you can see, several teams responded to my request.  I have stickers from the Saints, Cowboys, Eagles, Broncos, Redskins, Oilers, and one baseball team, the Orioles.

When I started actually receiving these items back in the mail I can’t describe how excited I was.  Getting an envelope filled with stickers and a letter on official team letterhead was more than enough to blow the mind of a kid that just hit double digits in age.  I’m not quite sure how I decided that my box would be an appropriate item to adorn my prized stickers.  All I know is the stickers and the box have been with me forever. Based on the Broncos 1977 AFC Champs sticker my approximate age at that time would have been 10.

Nowadays the box just sits quietly on my computer desk.  For years it has housed diskettes that I no longer need/use.  It also has two expired credit cards as well as the ticket to the Eagles/Panthers NFC championship game I attended.  I need to repurpose the box to hold more valuable items since it holds such a sentimental value to me.  Perhaps when I kick it my ashes could go in it, that would be cool.

This weekend I have more office work from home projects to straighten out.  All week I have been struggling with issues at work, my brain hurts.  Ali is going to be gone a good portion of Saturday so I should have plenty of time to work on stuff.

We might go for a run on Sunday.  Last night I felt a slight twinge in my right ass cheek, surely from my heavy dead lift / power clean session.  I am hoping I am twinge free before I run again.