Ever have one of those days where you think back to things you did as a kid and just reminisce about it? I did that this week in a big way. After getting sick and tired of the way '24' was going (with too many sappy scenes involving any of the women on the show and not enough action), I decided to move on to another show. I don't know how I ended up with it, but I decided to download the first season of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Way back when... back when it first premiered in 1993 when I was an 8 year old southern boy living in Texas, I started my obsession with the Power Rangers. Now when I say I was obsessed... I mean that. As a kid, I would get completely enthralled in one thing and nothing else (I guess I am still kind of that way... but to a lesser degree). Things like BRIO trains, MarbleWorks, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and my SEGA, pretending to be a radio station DJ (with my parents collection of CD including Huey Louis and the News, Bryan Adams, and MoTown), POGs, and of course the Power Rangers.

My brother and I would pretend to be power rangers for hours, fighting and everything until it usually ended with him getting hurt and me getting in trouble. We would even try to end arguments by saying that we had the shield, referring to the shield that the Green Ranger... because he was the bad ass ranger. We even bought the Megazord to play with.

But watching the episodes now just isn't the same. Its great to see the show that took over my life, but it is really pretty lame. The sets are beyond simple and half of the show is just the same long clips of the rangers morphing and then calling their Zords. The show must have been easy to make but damn I was obsessed. When we moved up to Idaho, the first thing I wanted to know was what channel Fox was so that I could watch them again.

Of course, after the rangers my obsession changed to computers when my family got our first $3000 Windows 3.1 computer, and I haven't moved on since. I guess the stuff I had was sold in a yard sale at some point,