How Did I learn I'm GenXer

The wayback memory data server kicks in. A supped up Ferrari Tesstrosa shoots through the neve data centers searching for something specific. The automated Testrosa stops its outolights flip open and with laser precesion it finds the memory light data of decade. The Testrosa fires the nerve light data back to the WayBack Memory server and the red lights spark up and down the server nerves..
The nerve data file opens...
It's vague on location but specifics come to light:
The 90s the last decade of the Twentith Century....

I was in bookstore I don't remember its name as for the location all I can it's vague at best. It could be in Bookland in Pemberton Mall now gone. Or another bookstore in Jackson,Ridgeland Ms but all I know it was a bookstore. That's where I came across it. At the time when bookstores,box bookstores in retail were still around. I don't recall what year but I know the decade for I know it was the 90s. Some ten years from the beginning of the new Millinnium. I was in early 30s too. But since I love to read I would explore a bookstore like Indiana Jones would explore archeligical site. In my case something new and interesting.
 I don't recall what section of the bookshelves that I came across this particular book. A paperback. I don't recall the author's name but I remember the title:
  GENERATION X. 

So I browse through the book. Taking my time. What I read was interesting as I read some then I made the connections. They leaped out. I can't recall what I read once done I bought it. But the author too made mistakes in his own book too.

When it came to us Xer's as I read it, he didn't want to count in those of us born in 1961. I later learned for example that those of us born in in 61 was problematic for Generation experts. Frankly I in my opioin the Gen Experts who study and research generations make mistakes. Some have called those of us born in 1961 "The Filler Generation." It's a term I disagree with. For I saw it in yahoo coments on a news article I read. At the time Generation X was written in thee 90s, some generation experts had already grouped those us born in 1961 as Baby Boomers. That's where I caught the mistake. I don't want to touch on much details about it but my memory had recalled then that had been young child growing up in the 60s, that I wasn't part of Woodstock,the anti Vietnam War movement and other movesments that made the 1960s a turbelant decade.
 Witthin ths book too I made the connection to the traits which I couldn't remember. But the author was funny too,wrote that some of us Xer's well in our older age would be enjoying hip hop and rap.
 Er wrong.
Well this older Gen Xer enjoys 80s Miami Vice, Jan Hammer and cool 80s pop tune like The Boys of Summer by Don Henley. By the way I still love movies on the screen too and cool iTunes soundtracks.
I'll wrap up with this nickname my dad gave me: A Gentleman and A Scholar. One word of advice to you GenZer's who called us GenXer's The Karen Generation. You don't know how a large majority of us grew up nor do you know our personal experinces. Get my Drift?
 So ponder the phrase.
For now signing off.

Being a GenXer in The Time of Pandemic

WE LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES--CHINESE PROVERB...

For years,decades we Generation Xer's have been ignored.
Then on the Yahoo News Portal several news suddenly appeared. So I linked into one of them.
It appears some journos have discovered who are resilent during quarantine. Yes,resilient. The word in the headline leaped out like neon on a movie marquee.

It now appears the generation ignored,the generation I'm damn proud to be a in,has emerged as the strong one. Where Millinniels are in a panic,GenZer's are partying for spring break on a Florida beach as the Wuhan Virus is reaking havoc,chaos and death upon the world,us GenXer's are doing and holding up rather well during ordered quaratines,shut ins.
A crash history: a majority of us Generation Xer's have been shut ins,latchkey kids while our parents worked. Some of us took care of ourselves: did our schoolwork, took care of the chores around the house while some of us grew up to adulthood.
As for myself,born in 1961,when  JFK was president to my adulthood when President Ronald Reagon was elected at the beginning of the 80s. I do remember the 70s during my high school years and I recall some of Watergate,the Iranian Hostage crisis which all happened under Jimmy Carter. I can even tell you the 70s was a dull decade unlike the 1960s. Yet as I sailed throught the late 70s,I graduated from High School Class of 1980. What I recall about this time the spring of 80, I gor my braces off and everyone in my senior class saw me very differently. Including my close friends. You see I graduated on a Friday Night in May of 1980. For that Saturday,the day after graduated from high school, Mount St. Helens exploded. I saw it on Saturday 530 network news. At that time cable was in infancy; there was no internet nor smartphones. The world was so retro then and fun.
 The 80s this GenXer like all GenXer's came of age in. I can go on about the 1980s it was a cool decade to go to college in. I graduated Hinds Jr College Class 83. I have an Associate Arts degree and I have been to University but I didn't complete my degree. By heart I'm a film buff and film was my major; yet in college I studied Advertising,Art Appreciation,creative writing,Journalism and television broadcasting too. During the 90s my aunt in Texas introduce me to travel and on my first trip to mexico,Puerto Vallarta, was my first trip outside the US. That was just the beginning. In the early 2000s,I've traveled to Europe twice,the Caribbean and Key West,South Florida. The world opened my eyes. For everytime I came home from a trip, I would where I was born,Vicksburg Ms, very differently. Travel will do that to your mind.
 As for this quarantine,I'm doing all right. I'm not depressed,not angry. I'm actually shy but in person I'll talk your ear off. I keep my mind occuppied in a variety of ways.
  U other GenXer's on the Wuhan Virus front: keep up the battle where ever you are. Just remember we're resilient.