I was a geeky kid in the 1980s; I owned (and loved) a calculator watch. I don’t ever see those anymore; they seem to have fallen out of fashion. Not that they ever *were* in fashion, of course. I also had a Frogger Watch at some point in my childhood; I was obsessed with it.

From age 11 to 13, I kept a dream journal, and many of the dreams referenced gadgets with amazing powers, like this one from Feb. 11, 1987:

The “I” and “S” at the top of the page derive from the categorization system for the journal that I developed on Nov 1, 1985:

• Put N if nightmare! The more scarier the nightmare was (at the time) the more !’s there will be.
• Put I if interesting (at time)
• Put G if good (at time)
• Put S if strange (at time)

Ever the archivist, I loved to categorize and classify as a kid.