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"Ten Years Ago I Was..."
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While working for a telecom company in Dallas, I was busy making sure that the network doesn't blow up as part of the Y2K scare.
In school, I was in 10th grade, this decade has gone by fast, almost out of HS for 8 years, here's hoping the next decade is more promising then the decade in which Bush was president. LOL
I was working a crappy helpdesk job while trying to finish up my degree. I rang in Y2K at a friend's house in Memphis. Ah, the joys of Beale Street. 
I had just left my crappy tech support job for a Unix Sysadmin job with the DoD at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas.
This very night, I was sitting at the planespotting parking area adjacent to the main runways at McCarran Int'l in Vegas, watching the planes land and takeoff, listening to the ATC tower, and watching the 15 minutes of fireworks going off on the rooftops of every hotel/casino on Las Vegas Blvd. They started them on Mandalay Bay, then, every 3 seconds until the new year, all the other casinos would start theirs. When the last casino started, it was the new year. Then the fireworks went off for 15 minutes straight.
Wow.. I was 25.
BL.
This very night, I was sitting at the planespotting parking area adjacent to the main runways at McCarran Int'l in Vegas, watching the planes land and takeoff, listening to the ATC tower, and watching the 15 minutes of fireworks going off on the rooftops of every hotel/casino on Las Vegas Blvd. They started them on Mandalay Bay, then, every 3 seconds until the new year, all the other casinos would start theirs. When the last casino started, it was the new year. Then the fireworks went off for 15 minutes straight.
Wow.. I was 25.
BL.
Wow. That sounds great. I wonder if they're doing any kind of show at the capital (DC). Of course I work til 11 and would never make it there in time to see even if there was...
I was in 10th grade. At this time 10 years ago I was at a friend's, forcing myself to drink Bud Light. Ugh.
Ten years ago I was in a job that was incredibly frustrating and unrewarding. Fortunately, release was only two years in my future.
Ten years ago none of my kids were married. Now two are married, the third is divorced, and I have three grandkids.
Ten years ago I'd only been involved in digital video editing for a few years. (Wow, have I been doing this for a decade and a half?? It still seems so new!!)
Ten years ago I wasn't retired. Now I am, even though I'm in my middle 50s. (I'm semi-retired, actually, since I'm drawing a pension and working at another job.)
Ten years ago I had the same beautiful, sweet wife I had twenty years ago and today as well.
Ten years ago none of my kids were married. Now two are married, the third is divorced, and I have three grandkids.
Ten years ago I'd only been involved in digital video editing for a few years. (Wow, have I been doing this for a decade and a half?? It still seems so new!!)
Ten years ago I wasn't retired. Now I am, even though I'm in my middle 50s. (I'm semi-retired, actually, since I'm drawing a pension and working at another job.)
Ten years ago I had the same beautiful, sweet wife I had twenty years ago and today as well.
10 years ago I was doing last minute testing to make sure our systems were y2k compliant. Despite the 2 years of pouring through code, we still had a couple of minor bugs pop up.
Now it's someone else's problem! LOL
There's no real solutions, only incremental fixes! FTW!
Now it's someone else's problem! LOL
There's no real solutions, only incremental fixes! FTW!
Way to make me feel all old and wistful...
10 years ago today I was a senior in high school, wearing a too-short skirt and knee-high boots to a family function before heading out to my boyfriend's house for the night.
Of course, my parents thought I was going out with pre-approved friends. In reality, I did a little drinking and illegal substance-ing.
Ah, to be young again.
10 years ago today I was a senior in high school, wearing a too-short skirt and knee-high boots to a family function before heading out to my boyfriend's house for the night.
Of course, my parents thought I was going out with pre-approved friends. In reality, I did a little drinking and illegal substance-ing.
Ah, to be young again.
Way to make me feel all old and wistful...
10 years ago today I was a senior in high school, wearing a too-short skirt and knee-high boots to a family function before heading out to my boyfriend's house for the night.
Of course, my parents thought I was going out with pre-approved friends. In reality, I did a little drinking and illegal substance-ing.
Ah, to be young again.
Not to be a creeper or anything, but I wish we had girls like you in my high school.
You would've been one year ahead of me.
Wow, it was that long ago?
I was 7 years old, in second grade. I do not believe we had a computer.
Ten years ago I did not have the OCD that is nearly controlling my life.
Ten years ago I don't think I had any worries.
I don't think I understood the significance of 2000, other than it being important.
I was 7 years old, in second grade. I do not believe we had a computer.
Ten years ago I did not have the OCD that is nearly controlling my life.
Ten years ago I don't think I had any worries.
I don't think I understood the significance of 2000, other than it being important.
I feel so old now days. Ten years ago I was a young twelve year old, today Im 22, finished highschool in 2005 and am well and truly past my childhood years. This new years also marks the third one I've spent with chronic nerve down my leg. I'm hoping this year I will be able to return to full health, return to the work force and complete the last three subjects in my uni degree.
Ten years ago I was about to start year 10 at school! Wow can't believe its so long ago...feels like yesterday
Ten years ago I was using a beige G3 PowerMac to run my own business ... and I'm still doing that now with the same computer.
Let's see, 10 years ago? I was in OAC (Grade 13), and about to start college in the fall, glad that all the Y2K hype never materialised. Since then, I would later work in a field that has very little to do with my major (as demand for Computer Programmers were basically non-existant here by the time I graduated). Oh well. Fun times
I was in Minneapolis with a high school friend that moved there after graduation (high school), drunk still underage. Oh, the good old days.
Finishing my first semester at art school. Little did I know I would be dropping out in a year and half.
You wouldn't have to see it... to smell it! The place smells like a war zone from all the gun powder, and that lingers until the wind blows it out of the valley! Vegas now got into the habit of doing this every year, and to be honest, they throw a lot better party than NYC's ball dropping. I mean, closing Las Vegas Blvd to all cars at 3pm, free bus/cab rides home from 6am New Year's Eve to 6pm New Year's day, and sitting at that parking area, watching planes take off and land with the backdrop of fireworks. Same thing pretty much happens in Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, and London.
I'm pretty sure D.C. does something similar. I thought I remember seeing pictures of fireworks going off behind the Washington Monument or the Lincoln Memorial..
BL.
