… the best part of my life began.

Happy anniversary, Mrs. Wheaton. I love you the most for one thousand times.

About a year ago, I cleaned out my garage. I came across dozens of artifacts of a life spent in the television and film industry, as well as clear evidence of my love for nerdy things going back to my earliest years on planet Earth.

I posted pictures of that stuff on Twitter, and I’ve been meaning to collect them all here ever since, but … reasons.

Today, though, I am back in the garage getting everything out of it so I can have it converted into a clubhouse for playing tabletop games, Rock Band, and poker. I’m also putting my homebrewery in there, guaranteeing that it will be the most awesome thing, ever.

I’m almost done. I have probably two more hours of work, so I’ve been peeking into some of the boxes as I move them out onto my patio. This picture was in a box that’s filled with similar memories:

I love that I found this. I have a lot of great memories from working on Toy Soldiers, and the people you see in this picture (and our awesome director, Dan Pietrie, Jr.), are the reason.

That’s me from 1977. Please note that I’m wearing my grandmother’s fancy gloves to complete the look.