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[learnedax]

You know, I thought about writing up a ten year cross-section as many of my friends have done. I've found them interesting and informative, if also sometimes deeply nostalgic. The problem is that ten years ago I was twelve, and I can't actually remember a single thing that happened in my life that year. Notable events start about six years ago for me, and even so most years would read something like "got more involved in SCA, gaming, and theatre. Became closer to tpau." How about I come back to the idea in ten years instead?

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[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

I probably have notes in the attic if you ever want to look back. There are photos in a box in the front room but they are so cluttered now that you're probably safe from anyone digging anything up.

Ten years ago was 1994. That was the year we left Watertown and moved to Melrose. Sometime late summer the Performa supplanted the Plus. That was the year I put a pile of hours in at Holt between Christmas and New Years putting in a new system, and 1995 was when they put me on pager. Probably not that long after the Holt folks would ask you easy tech support questions when I wasn't available. Does that jog any of your memories loose?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Sure, that tells me that in March 1994 you were starting to think about houses, you were beginning to want a new computer, you had just put in extra hours, and you had a new pager.

Even if any of that were about my life, the point is that nothing was important enough to stand out in my memory, and thus not interesting enough to write about. You could probably dig up what subjects I was studying at the time, etc. but that sort of thing just isn't worth expounding on.

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Thought the move might trigger something for you, or absence on my part. My bad.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Wow, way to bite her head off. The thing is, unless you were completely insular growing up, events of the people around you might trigger memories in your head.

I'm going to assign you a week of reading Zits. You're behaving like a 14-year-old.

[tpau]

oh i don't know, i think what he wrote down was incredibly polite considering the things he said outloud...