I haven't written 2006 on a check yet, so that's good. I am pretty comfortable with the year being 2007.
I was remembering my sixth grade teacher, a certain Mrs. Taylor, who drew our attention to the fact that we would likely see the dawn of the new millennium. She told our class that most of us would be 30 years of age in the year 2000.
I hadn't considered that I would ever be 30. My own mother was about 31 then, and she was Very Old.
Mrs. Taylor liked to speculate about what the turn of the millennium might bring. She didn't guess at how freaked out people would be with the thought that Jesus would make His Second Appearance then.
She neglected to mention that our husbands would buy rice and beans by the truckload and whisper about the end of the world.
And the Y2K thing. Who saw that coming in 1981? Were computers even around then? VCRs were soon to make an appearance. And microwave ovens...remember when your family first got one of those? Oh, dear!
And so, here we are. 2007. Y2K books have enhanced our nation's landfills, and we sally forth across the ages.
My own child is in 6th grade, and he has me for a teacher, instead of Mrs. Taylor. I wonder how the world will have changed by the time he turns 30......2025.
That kind of puts those resolutions right into perspective, huh?
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1981, hmmmmm.
Running a silver exploration business - how many remember that boom, er, bust? I still keep a 21 pound block as a door stop of that painful memory!
DeJong computers had come out with the first PC the year before which would turn into IBM's entry into the PC market in 1981, thus making Bill Gates a very rich man.
In 1981 I was in utero. I KNOW! I'm a wee thing. Did you know that my dad thought that he wouldn't be alive in the year 2000 because living to be 44, well that's just WAY too old. And now look at him, he's 50 and homeless!
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