2 Decades Later..

[jdmidwest]

Tonight we ring in a new Decade, 2020.  I was sitting here remembering clearly the events of New Years Eve 1999.  I was in a buddies back yard in Florissant listening to the river boats on the Missouri River sounding their horns, gunshots and fireworks popping off everywhere while marinating in my alcoholic beverage.  It was about the worst point in my life, freshly divorced, separated from my daughter.  I was in the tech business then and carrying the pager waiting for the dreaded thing to go off if all of our software prep had been in vain. 

Fast forward 20 years.  I met my wife about a month later on Yahoo Dating.  She brought with her a daughter also a few years older than mine.  Both have grown up and done well, married 2 fine men, and have 4 beautiful kids.  Lots have happened for the better, many changes are behind us.  Some of the ones at that party are gone now.

Happy New Year!

 

[Jerry Rapp]

New years day 2000 I was at Montauk, also dreading a Y2K call about computer crashes at work.  It was a semi warm day, the trout were biting, and I finally got the guts to call the office at 3 pm to learn that nothing bad happened.  

[jdmidwest]

That part fizzled, I had the cash registers and POS in 5 states at that time.  Some of the old systems in grocery were made in the late 70's with file servers made of banks of rom chips.  They survived.  I did field one call that night, a closing manager at a Brew Pub in St. Charles needed a reboot.

Pager and bag phone was still issued support equipment.  Touchscreens were just coming online and very expensive.

 

[bfishn]

I was in New Orleans 20 yrs ago today. What happens in NOLA stays in NOLA,

[snagged in outlet 3]

6 minutes ago, bfishn said:

I was in New Orleans 20 yrs ago today. What happens in NOLA stays in NOLA,

I'm headed down in April.  But those days are behind me...  Hope to have a good fishing report.

[moguy1973]

So here is a good debate.  Does the new decade start tomorrow or on Jan 1, 2021?  Was the start of A.D. on Jan 1, 0000 or Jan 1, 0001?

 

[fishinwrench]

Ahh Y2K reminiscing 😊

I was divorced from wife#1, raising a 5 year old daughter as a single dad. I lost my father that year and had just begun dating what would turn out to be wife #2, a gal 9 years younger, recently discommunicated Jehovah's Witness who had 2 kids (the biggest mistake of my life).   I've learned alot about CHOICES and DECISIONS in the last 20 years and have become way more of a "thinker" who intently weighs and considers every possible outcome before making a choice now.

Hoping the best for everyone in 2020....... Let's do it!  😊👍

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I was caring for my wife going through chemo and surgeries and taking care of a 1 year old baby girl.  Laid off from GM to boot.  Did my best but I wasn't my best.  I don't like those memories. 

[MOPanfisher]

Y2K prep, I remember laying is a few hundred rounds of .22 WMR ammo, knowing my neighbor had a bunch of young Holstein steers, figured I would at least eat good.  My in laws had a stocked cellar with tons (literally) of food, which several years later we hauled to the dump.  Who knew you could buy #10 cans of butter powder or chili powder.  I did score some nice barrels I repurposed to trash barrels from it.  The summer of 1999 we visited my uncle who worked for IBM, I asked him about Y2K, he said it is the best idea we have ever come up to sell new mainframe computers, nothing is gonna happen and  laughed about all the hype.

[Blazerman]

In 99 I was 2 years into my new IT career and was also carrying a pager for the big crash that never came. And I was truly happy to be out of the lawn care and landscaping field I had been in for 20 years. No more snow plowing !

I was in a great marriage to a beautiful woman and had 3 kids and I was looking forward to whatever life had in store.

And amazingly things have gone better than I could of imagined. I survived two buy outs and I am still employed, although about ready to retire. Two of my kids have graduated college and the third one will this May. And my wife and I are truly in a great place. We bought a house last year in Linn creek and plan on living there after retirement. Life is good.