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The last twenty years, in brief

I've decided not to go to my 20th high school reunion. For those who venture over this way, here's the last twenty years, in brief.
Didn't enjoy chemistry classes. Talked my way into managing a computer network. Moved off-campus. Learned to cook. Met my (to be) wife. Graduation #1. Got married. Started a Ph.D. Had my wisdom teeth removed. Stopped working on my Ph.D. Moved to Seattle. Graduation #2. Joined the rat race in California. Couldn't afford a house, moved to Austin. Startup #1. Bought a house. Learned to fly. Startup #2. Added a floatplane rating. Burnt out of doing startups. Moved back to Seattle. First child born. Finished commercial pilot certificate. Got bored, went to startup #3, which sank into the swamp. Second child born. Startup #4 burnt down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. Pursued an MBA to make sense of startups. Flew myself to Chicago and back. Graduation #3. Worked at the world's largest online retailer. Biked to Vancouver, BC. Had jet lag from working on "internet time." Biked to Portland and Vancouver, BC. Currently at a small, non-startup manufacturing CFD visualization software. Next month, I'm biking around the Washington peninsula. Life is good.
Please write.

Posted by Jim on July 18, 2005 |

5 Comments:
Eric Gunnerson wrote on (July 18, 2005 10:33 PM)

You were lucky to have a swamp. We had to live by the side of the road in a cardboard box...

John wrote on (July 19, 2005 8:50 AM)

Cardboard box?

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank.

Karen wrote on (July 19, 2005 12:04 PM)

Gee, there was plenty of room under the rock where I was living... y'all shoulda called...

Tracey wrote on (July 19, 2005 10:18 PM)

You had a rock? Too high society for me :o)

woodstock wrote on (July 20, 2005 3:36 AM)

You could probably fit that all on one page of a hipster PDA (http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Hipster_PDA), and not a bad plan if you were going to go to the reunion. I went to my 10th, mostly because I'd lost a ton of weight since graduating from high school (and damn didn't I look good). Depending on when and where it is, I may go to my 20th simply because 1) I've kept *most* of that weight off (nothing like a stable relationship to pack on 15 extra pounds around the middle, eh), and 2) 10 years ago the good-looking "popular" crowd was already showing their years in various stages of bad. There's just some latent roadside accident gawker gene in me that wants to see how many botched plastic surgeries there have been.

Oh, yes, and mine wasn't a swamp: it was a heating grate in front of a federal building ;-)

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