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Today is Friday, April 12, 2024. We are almost twenty minutes past noon as of the time I type this. It is my last day here at the achievement center, and this marks a transition for me as any future work I complete towards this book will be realized away from the comforts of this front desk. In just two days' time, my new desk will be in a group home at a residential care facility about ten minutes west of where I've been living for almost nineteen years. It feels surreal to realize that after nearly two decades, I'll be residing under a different roof. When we moved in back in 2005, I was only twelve years old, and turned thirteen later that same year. I wish the people I've come to meet over these last six months could have seen what the residence looked like back then. Being there back when the home was still empty, bearing witness to just how spacious it was--the previous tenants were a mother and father with four children and a couple of pets, from what I was told--and seeing the floral print wallpaper that even back in those days exuded a vintage aesthetic, the world seemed so much brighter back then, and teeming with opportunities. The Internet was still somewhat of a 'wild west', and had not yet become infected by the virus that is antisocial media. We were still a few years away from analog television being shut down here in the United States, and there were still a decent number of arcades that people could visit if they wanted to experience the feeling of inserting their coins and spending some time immersing themselves in sights and sounds that stimulated the imagination to the fullest possible extent. The few arcades that are around today have by and large seen their arcade cabinets replaced with skill cranes, or 'claw machines' as most would call them. Even as a child, I wasn't impressed with the claw machines, though the momentary rush of adrenaline you felt when trying to grab a prize and get it into the holding compartment was quite thrilling. I remember going to the Festival Flea Market a year or two before we moved to our current place, and being blown away at the arcade there. It was probably the most impressive arcade I've ever been to, and carried a ton of truly fantastic games. To name a few I can vividly recall S.T.U.N Runner, Daytona USA, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game (the 4-player version!), Rad Mobile, Zombie Raid, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Soul Calibur, NFL Blitz, Outrunners, and Revolution X as being among the available games. I couldn't tell you when it happened, but eventually that entire arcade was cleared out to make way for a store that sells bikes, wheelchairs, and electric scooters among other things. Though most of the games that were in it could be emulated with MAME by the time I found out the arcade was no longer there, I still felt a tinge of sadness at knowing that something that had been a special part of my childhood was gone. Lord only knows how the owner of that arcade must have felt when they had to start vacating that space, because I could tell just from the selection of games that they were truly passionate about the arcade experience. The workers were friendly, the prizes ranged from simple stuff you could find at a dollar store to very impressive (among the prizes, from what I recall, were a PlayStation 2 and Xbox), and the atmosphere was as nostalgic as it gets. These days, you're lucky if you go to a place with even one arcade game, and even luckier if it isn't a claw machine. The Cici's Pizza near my house has a small arcade that once boasted some impressive titles; their only true arcade game now is a Batman game released over ten years ago. It's a sit-down racer, and a one-player game, which is unfortunate because games supporting co-op play tend to make even more money for operators. The 'armchair owner' in me thinks about how much money they may have potentially saved--and gained--by getting a couple of MAME cabinets and putting them side by side to fill up the space taken by that one Batman game. The gamer in me considers the possibility of an arcade cabinet being added to the achievement center, once it expands and moves to a new location (which is slated for a few years from now, if all goes according to plan). Evelyn didn't shoot down the idea immediately, so there may be a chance for it to happen. A MAME cabinet seems like the most economical option, as it would allow for the most games at the cheapest possible price point; set it to 'Free Play' and turn off the attract mode sound and I foresee it being a big hit. I've got a feeling the Konami brawlers based on popular licenses (TMNT, X-Men, The Simpsons, Bucky O'Hare, Asterix, Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa) would go over best, and of course there would be significantly more games to choose from besides those. This morning, I parted with eight keyboards, in varying states of disrepair. They will probably all need some tender love and care to be brought back to their full potential, and I hope that the achievement center will invest in fixing them up when and where necessary. They may be older models, but all have great sound capabilities. Another donation was a 50" smart TV that had been gifted to me by someone in the community a few weeks ago; it has been given to one of the teachers to use. (Hopefully the smaller TV she's been using can be given to another teacher, perhaps for a double-res [two-screen] configuration to enhance their classroom teaching.) Tomorrow, Evelyn and I will sort through the picks of my 'litter' that is downstairs and ready to be taken to the care facility on Sunday. If there is anything else that can be donated, I am deeply grateful to know that it may be able to help someone else just as it helped me. I'll miss you, desk. Thanks for the memories.