the last time the miniumum wage went up...

[fflo]

... i was working for the symphony
... my mother was still alive
... i hadn't even met the h-bomb
... i had met the people associated with only 26 of the 94 e-mail addresses currently in my e-mail address book
... chester was a mere 8 years old
... it was 2 years before jeffrey would even be conceived

Wanna play? What else was true in August of 1996, for you personally and/or in the broader world?

It's more fun than talking/thinking about the latest war plans/escalation.

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[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

Hmm...August 96 I was just starting my first truely minimum wage job at Bradley University pulling printouts off of line printers and handing them out/sorting them into bins, only 4 months later to quit that for quite a modest income as a computer consultant at the flop of a company lovingly referred to as CyberDonut.

Just starting my first few days in college, only to start dropping out/sluffing off classes 4-6 months later which doomed me to 11 years (come Jan 25th this year) of working in IT hell.

I was still a virgin, and couldn't have imagined having more than 3 or 4 partners in my lifetime. *laugh* If only I could tell Drew-then what Drew-now knows.

I'd never lived alone or on my own.

I'd never done an illegal drug.

(The next year, all that changed.)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

If only I could tell Drew-then what Drew-now knows.

That thought, of the elder self looking back, is maybe the sweetest bittersweet smile of the wisdom of experience.

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

Yeah...totally....at least I can reach within myself and give that past self a big old hug and a nod and a wink :-)