Random Bytes » Journal http://www.byte.org All Things Internet™ since 1999 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:12:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 The difference ten years makes http://www.byte.org/2010/01/18/the-difference-ten-years-makes/ http://www.byte.org/2010/01/18/the-difference-ten-years-makes/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:24:24 +0000 http://www.byte.org/2010/01/18/the-difference-ten-years-makes/ Related posts:
  1. My 2010 New Years Resolutions – The Real Life Edition 2010 already feels good. I mean, a new year always...
  2. Life in the cloud…. Funny. Comments were broken on this blog. The fix wasn’t...
  3. On remembering 9/11 – 9 years ago…. Here’s a link to the decaying archives of byte.org recounting...
]]> I took Amanda out for dinner for her birthday tonight. Being the guest of honor, she got to pick the fare – pizza from around the corner followed by a drive out to Dairy Queen for a Peanut Buster Parfait. The stereotypical pregnant lady smorgasbord, complete with anchovies on the pizza and a request for pickles at the Dairy Queen.

We had a great time. As we ate our ice cream in the parking lot of the DQ, I asked her if she remembered what she did to celebrate her birthday ten years ago. She replied that she vaguely remembered partying in a local pub, drinking one shot for each year of her life. Ouch. I thought it was a pretty funny contrast – ten years does make for quite a difference.

Its almost 9:30 as I write this, and we’re just about to bundle up and off to bed. Ten years ago, we were just getting started.

Related posts:

  1. My 2010 New Years Resolutions – The Real Life Edition 2010 already feels good. I mean, a new year always...
  2. Life in the cloud…. Funny. Comments were broken on this blog. The fix wasn’t...
  3. On remembering 9/11 – 9 years ago…. Here’s a link to the decaying archives of byte.org recounting...

]]> http://www.byte.org/2010/01/18/the-difference-ten-years-makes/feed/ 0