July 14, 1927 is the day John G. Hubbell made his grand entrance in the farce we call Life on Earth.

In the 84 years since then, the American people have undergone the First Great Depression, the Second World War,  the advent of the Television Age, the Space Age, the Nuclear Age, the Computer Age, the Video Age...

When he was a kid, newspapers rolled off the presses twice a day to keep the public informed.  Now, the internet keeps us up to the second on whatever situation we are interested enough in to monitor.   
He learned to drive before there was an interstate highway system.  Now he drives an Audi A6 with power everything.  His first car didn't have a radio because back then, radios were large, heavy pieces of furniture.  His new car has an Ipod dock into which he could plug an instrument that can hold every piece of recorded music he's ever heard, despite being half the size of a deck of cards.
When Dad was a kid, hardly anyone had a telephone in their homes.  Now, even little kids have phones in their pockets an the phones themselves have computer capabilities that would put those used by NASA during the Apollo missions to shame.

Dad has been here to see the Cultural Revolution and the Facebook Revolution, which he seriously doubts will have happier results.  Anyway, my point is this; when Dad says "Been there, done that, now I've seen everything."  he actually means it.

He's still sharp as a tack and just two days ago, was climbing trees down by the Mississippi river.

I hope I'm still doing that in 2044.

 

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