Dating Yourself

I was pointing and clicking my way through DMarie's Time Capsule, an online tool for finding out what happened on your birthday, when I realized how much fun I was having.

And that, kind of, well, surprised me, to discover how much fun it was, placing myself, as it were, in time, and seeing the connections to other things that were happening when I was. As I was in the process of congratulating myself for discovering this obviously little-known source of actual fun, and marveling over the wealth of detail available to me through this virtual time capsule, I inadvertently moused over to the site of the company sponsors DMarie's Time Capsule - DMarie itself. For a most puzzling moment or two, I grew both dazed and confused. What was I doing looking at the website of a Scrapbook Supply company? I mean, Scrapbook Supply? And why would such a company create such a wonderful thing as this Time Cap.....?

Oh, of course, Scrapbooking, Time Capsules. Scrapbooking. Time capsules. All about encapsulating time. No? An art unto itself, yes? With an online collection of "22660 entries in 85 different categories." And here I was thinking I'd discovered a new way to have fun.