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Post by G on Dec 30, 2009 12:04:17 GMT -5
Ut-oh, New Years always make me nostalgic to the point I almost hate myself. It's hard to believe 2010 is almost upon us. Not only is it a new year, it's a new decade. Which makes me think back to the last beginning of a new decade.
I remember standing on my back porch of my condominium with my now ex-girlfriend smoking a cigarette before the New Years countdown and we were kinda freaking ourselves out a bit.
You see, 10 years ago, not only was it a New Year. Not only was it a New Decade. Not only was it a New Century. It was a New Millennium. The Y2K scare was gripping the nation waiting for the world to implode with electronic mayhem because computers wouldn't know it was the year 2000. (I worked at an Electronic's company and pretty much new it wasn't going to mean much and it hardly meant a thing really, the world went right on moving, but for the year or 2 before that, the move to be "Y2K Compliant" was on and the buzzword of the times).
Me and my girlfriend had freaked each other out because we were saying we were entering the century where we would die. There was a certain peace at still being in the 1900's for me. It still meant I was young. I knew forever when I was a kid that I would be 32 going on 33 when the year 2000 came. Now I'm on the other side of that. For a few moments, we pondered that this oncoming century would bring our deaths.
Looking back, it's amazing to me how much my life has changed since that very memorable night 10 years ago. I no longer have her as a girl friend. I am no longer single, I'm happily married. I no longer have the condominium. I have a house with land. I no longer smoke (thank god). And even though I would work at the job I was at for 11 years, I no longer have that job. Also at the time, I was no longer into comics and now I am (thankfully).
A few things that didn't change. I was becoming addicted to being on computer and that hasn't changed. Amazingly I was in school at the time and I would graduate a year later with a Certificate in Electronics. Now, I'm back in school as the New Decade is upon us combining my love for computer and the internet by studying web design.
I started the decade with no message board and I leave it the proud (well, I am) admin of Comic Crack. It wasn't even a twinkle in my minds eye back then. Although I know I was probably already getting into message boards back then, I had no idea that 10 years later I would be going into my 3rd year of running my own.
There is always a bit of nostalgia mixed with a bit of amazement and a touch of fear when I have New Year's hit me. I enter 2010 with a lot of needs. Even more so than 2000. And it's far more overpowering than my wants list. You also wonder if your health will hold out? Will you family life remain good? Will your love ones survive another decade? Is Jim Morrison would say...
"The future is uncertain and the end is always near."
I go into 2010 thinking if I am lucky enough to see my way into 2020, I will no longer be a young man by the end of it. And looking back 10 years, I know I was young. It's amazing how fast we progress from young to not so young. It catches up with you in the blink of an eye. I leave 2009 trying to hold onto what youth I have. I enter 2010 hoping I don't end the decade with the worries I have now. What will be my worries 10 years from now?
There isn't any way to fight it. Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping....into the future. And I can't fight it. Might as well face the inevitable and dive into the new decade running full speed ahead. There isn't anything we can do about it. And pretty soon we'll be watching tv shows showing things like "The best songs of the 00's".
In some way, I really do hope Comic Crack still exists 10 years from now. I have no idea if it will. But I'd like to think so.
Anyway, I'm done rambling once again about another topic.
Happy New Decade People!!!
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Post by defiant1 on Dec 30, 2009 15:49:23 GMT -5
Well, I feel a tad bit responsible for coxing you down this path. I hope everything pans out. Modify, adapt, improvise. Move forward. Life is the journey.
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Post by Wrecks on Dec 30, 2009 20:49:51 GMT -5
Here's to hoping 2010 will be an even better year then 2009. And that the next decade will be even better. Although 2010 starting point for me at work may not start off so well.
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Post by G on Dec 31, 2009 20:48:38 GMT -5
Well, the time is upon us. This will be my last post of 2009! I'm off to a wedding that takes place at the stroke of midnight. No lie! So this is my final sign on of the decade. It's been real people!
Let's make this coming year and decade way better than the year and decade we leave behind!
Happy New Year! ;D
Tommy
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Post by defiant1 on Dec 31, 2009 21:37:25 GMT -5
Well, the time is upon us. This will be my last post of 2009! I'm off to a wedding that takes place at the stroke of midnight. No lie! So this is my final sign on of the decade. It's been real people! Let's make this coming year and decade way better than the year and decade we leave behind! Happy New Year! ;D Tommy -gowaltrip That is a horrible thing for someone to do to their friends! Why would someone disrupt everyone else's New Years eve plans so they can put themselves in the spotlight. Also, most people drink at weddings and that's the worst night of the year to be drinking. Wow. That amazes me. I'd really have to WANT to be nowhere else that night before I'd attend. Even if it was a good friend, chances are I wouldn't attend. I had a friend get married on Halloween. I told him not to waste his effort sending me an invitation. If I ever get married, I'll elope. Defiant1 |
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Post by G on Jan 1, 2010 2:57:01 GMT -5
Well, the time is upon us. This will be my last post of 2009! I'm off to a wedding that takes place at the stroke of midnight. No lie! So this is my final sign on of the decade. It's been real people! Let's make this coming year and decade way better than the year and decade we leave behind! Happy New Year! ;D Tommy -gowaltrip That is a horrible thing for someone to do to their friends! Why would someone disrupt everyone else's New Years eve plans so they can put themselves in the spotlight. Also, most people drink at weddings and that's the worst night of the year to be drinking. Wow. That amazes me. I'd really have to WANT to be nowhere else that night before I'd attend. Even if it was a good friend, chances are I wouldn't attend. I had a friend get married on Halloween. I told him not to waste his effort sending me an invitation. If I ever get married, I'll elope. Defiant1 I totally agree with most of what you are saying. On the way to the wedding I told my wife these people didn't think this through. They are jeopardizing our safety by scheduling a wedding during New Years Eve. Not only that, but you are right. I also indicated that most weddings have alcohol (which this one did) and being New Years, there was a great likelihood of the Police having random check points throughout the area. So either we could have the misfortune of running into a drunk driver, or we could be harassed by the cops. To make matters worse, I had to drive 50 miles one way in the darkest night under very rainy, dreary and worst of all....foggy conditions. I will agree, the whole trip had been on my mind for more than a few days wondering how this would turn out. As it was, it was my wife's working partner who was married. My wife has a prominent position with the city. She has really climbed the ladder's of success over the past few years since I have been with her. She also considers this person a friend. Just last week we ate dinner with them at a nice restaurant. Against my judgment, we went to the wedding. And I'll fully agree with you that it was extremely bad timing and ill conceived to make everyone else's New Year's Eve night, their moment in the spotlight. In the end, it ended up being something to do for my wife. I could have put my foot down and made a big stink out of it. Instead, I went along, played nice and did it for her. That's not to say I didn't let my thoughts known on the subject. I certainly let her know how I thought the timing of the wedding was certainly bad in many ways. In the end, I just went along with it. It's over now and I doubt I would ever have to do it again. So, I'm just glad it's over. |
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 1, 2010 10:02:01 GMT -5
That is a horrible thing for someone to do to their friends! Why would someone disrupt everyone else's New Years eve plans so they can put themselves in the spotlight. Also, most people drink at weddings and that's the worst night of the year to be drinking. Wow. That amazes me. I'd really have to WANT to be nowhere else that night before I'd attend. Even if it was a good friend, chances are I wouldn't attend. I had a friend get married on Halloween. I told him not to waste his effort sending me an invitation. If I ever get married, I'll elope. Defiant1 I totally agree with most of what you are saying. On the way to the wedding I told my wife these people didn't think this through. They are jeopardizing our safety by scheduling a wedding during New Years Eve. Not only that, but you are right. I also indicated that most weddings have alcohol (which this one did) and being New Years, there was a great likelihood of the Police having random check points throughout the area. So either we could have the misfortune of running into a drunk driver, or we could be harassed by the cops. To make matters worse, I had to drive 50 miles one way in the darkest night under very rainy, dreary and worst of all....foggy conditions. I will agree, the whole trip had been on my mind for more than a few days wondering how this would turn out. As it was, it was my wife's working partner who was married. My wife has a prominent position with the city. She has really climbed the ladder's of success over the past few years since I have been with her. She also considers this person a friend. Just last week we ate dinner with them at a nice restaurant. Against my judgment, we went to the wedding. And I'll fully agree with you that it was extremely bad timing and ill conceived to make everyone else's New Year's Eve night, their moment in the spotlight. In the end, it ended up being something to do for my wife. I could have put my foot down and made a big stink out of it. Instead, I went along, played nice and did it for her. That's not to say I didn't let my thoughts known on the subject. I certainly let her know how I thought the timing of the wedding was certainly bad in many ways. In the end, I just went along with it. It's over now and I doubt I would ever have to do it again. So, I'm just glad it's over. Sounds like you did what you had to do. Her friends & job related... probably a good idea. My friend that had his wedding on Halloween was equally inconsiderate. He managed a comic book store. At closing time, we'd always decide if we were going to somewhere for dinner. I'd say "Let's agree upon a place." He'd name off a bunch of places where I flat out cannot can't eat due to food allergies. I'd name off some option that I felt were a compromise for both of us. He'd complain, but he'd compromise. It never got through to him that I'd be physically ill if I ate at the places he wanted to eat. Eventually when he met his fiance, he insisted that we go to the places that made me physically sick, because he'd already eaten at the places I suggested the day before with her. So I'd look at him and say "Well, I guess we can't make plans." Then he'd pout and say what a good friend I was and why don't we go out to eat anymore. Eventually he just lost my respect as a person and I think he's a moron. He was the guy who stole/kept/lost (whatever) my Daring Comics press pack. He also got so offended that a shoplifter would steal a Frank Miller hardcover that he ran out of the store leaving it unlocked and unattended. Hopped into his car to chase the guy down. He drove straight into a four lane road without paying attention and got into a head-on collision. The shoplifter got away. The store was unlocked and unattended. He was unconscious and rushed off to the emergency room. He could have died from it and he did come out of it looking like he had prison scars on his face from fighting. It messed him up pretty bad. The sad thing is that if it had been just about any other creator he'd have said "screw it" and let the shoplifter get away. Frank Miller was a creator this guy admired above all else. Stealing a book that he really wanted to sell just offended his sense of right and wrong. It became a moral issue to him since it was Frank Miller's work. But anyway, your New Years Eve wedding incident reminded me of him because he expected me to go to his wedding on Halloween. He was one out of a long list of friends that married the first person that gave them sex regularly. If you really love the girl, nothing wrong with that, but I'd see friends hook up with girls that had absolutely nothing going on and think "What the hell do you see in this person?" Friends would marry girls with no sense of humor, 90% bitch, completely demanding, absolutely selfish. I had one friend whose wife divorced him. She was such a vindictive bitch that she paid $3 to send a registered letter to tell him he owed $10 on an insurance co-pay for his daughter. She got her alimony and child support payments based on him having a tech oriented business when he was making tons of money, then she proceeded to harass his employer and caused him to lose his jobs. She did it again this last year. The guy's struggling to make child support payments that he can't make because of her. She brilliantly has him thrown in jail so he loses the job that he was working only to pay her. He even trained her how to do her job. She'd be unskilled, unpersonable, and completely undesirable if not for him. Sad but true. Her brother is gay and she pressed for the divorce after becoming good friends with their butch lesbian neighbor. You've got to always question a woman who is more interested in hanging out with friends that hate men. After writing all this, I know why I'm still single. Defiant1 |
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Post by G on Jan 1, 2010 13:14:17 GMT -5
I think it would have put a strain on my wife's higher up relationships if she didn't attend. She has a good thing going where she is and she's doing well. 5 years ago she was let go by the same lousy company that I quit during a massive layoff where the company let go of the best and brightest in a move that cut costs but made no sense as far as who they let go. That is when the job started becoming insufferable to me.
My wife has since went on to work for 3 different cities. City #1 she started low. City #2 she had a much better position. City #3 and now she is a manager overseeing a decent amount of people and is going places. I'm proud of my wife. She basically was a bit of inspiration for me to leave my job. Although the circumstances are totally different and she didn't choose to be let go. She now has progressed far beyond what she was before she was let go.
I was late getting married. I seen a lot of my friends marry those 1st ones to give them regular sex too. And even though I wasn't married, I had some long live in relationships of 6 years and 2 years and finally 7 years before I left that one and got with my future wife. I was 38 when I got married. They always told me that you'll know when it's time. Well, I knew.
Sometimes I still yearn to be single again and still living by my own agenda and not having someone else to worry about. But then again, I'm glad I have my wife to wake up to every day and someone who looks after me when times are bad. In the situation I'm currently in, I'd be lost. Or I'd still be where I was. Which may not have been a bad thing considering where I am now. But then again, I was miserable there. So, if it wasn't for my wife, I wouldn't have had options. I just would have been dealing with it. I think I'd rather be like I am today and struggling, then to be where I was and hating.
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Post by Wrecks on Jan 2, 2010 8:48:00 GMT -5
And now for something a little more light hearted.
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 2, 2010 9:11:05 GMT -5
Huh?
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