The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
I’m the same height and I still can’t be trusted with a credit card.
On Sep 23, 2019, at 12:10 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
2009: Worried about the future and money 2019: Worried about the future and money
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:14 PM Brendan Adkins xorph@xorph.com wrote:
I’m the same height and I still can’t be trusted with a credit card.
On Sep 23, 2019, at 12:10 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you
compared to 2009?
_Apologies for duplicates. Getting the list sorted on my end._
The me of 10 years ago would never believe I would be more worried about the future than I was then. So much more worried.
On a side note, has anyone else discovered that the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. The corollary is that work (and life) that used to seem easy is more difficult after learning more about it. Still planning to keep on learning though, torpedoes be damned!
On 23 Sep 2019, at 15:23, brad wrote:
2009: Worried about the future and money 2019: Worried about the future and money
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:14 PM Brendan Adkins xorph@xorph.com wrote:
I’m the same height and I still can’t be trusted with a credit card.
On Sep 23, 2019, at 12:10 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you
compared to 2009?
-- -brad *brad sucks* https://www.bradsucks.net/ :: *spotify* https://open.spotify.com/artist/13yy1c4aDXIWu2zfvtvGLn?si=9vJ5ntytSQOol0lKqE4WiA / *patreon* https://www.patreon.com/bradsucks/ / *twitter* https://www.twitter.com/bradsucks/ / *instagram* https://www.instagram.com/bradsucks/
In 2009 i was more worried about money and less about the future, and that flipped by 2019.
In 2009 my oldest kid was in grade school, this year they started college.
In 2009 i had lived in my 1909 house almost 10 years and had a centennial party. I was continually working on one house project or another. In 2019 i’m still in the same house, and down to only 1-2 medium size projects a year (the kitchen took 5 years, in 4 phases).
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 2:30 PM brad brad@bradsucks.net wrote:
2009: Worried about the future and money 2019: Worried about the future and money
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:14 PM Brendan Adkins xorph@xorph.com wrote:
I’m the same height and I still can’t be trusted with a credit card.
On Sep 23, 2019, at 12:10 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for
you compared to 2009?
-- -brad *brad sucks* https://www.bradsucks.net/ :: *spotify* https://open.spotify.com/artist/13yy1c4aDXIWu2zfvtvGLn?si=9vJ5ntytSQOol0lKqE4WiA / *patreon* https://www.patreon.com/bradsucks/ / *twitter* https://www.twitter.com/bradsucks/ / *instagram* https://www.instagram.com/bradsucks/
I should introduce myself before replying to today's prompt. I'm Eric, aka ~elb, and work at a small marketing firm in Georgia (just south of Chattanooga, Tenn.) designing for web and print, managing project teams, and other tasks. Married, four grown kids, three dogs, three cats.
Yes, we know. Our vet has already informed us we're crazy.
Like most of you, I groaned when I first saw my inbox. I was on vacation in New Orleans and refused to deal with it at first. A closer inspection of those many emails was delightful. Saw some familiar names and new ones. I had a blast catching up on what everyone has been doing since our fledgling community came together in 2014.
Anyway, on to the prompt.
On 23 Sep 2019, at 15:10, Jon Bell wrote:
What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
Most things have changed for me during the past decade except for one constant, my wife. This is the third marriage for both of us, so the same cannot be said earlier decades.
The changes have been good for the most part. When we first got together we had two kids in elementary, one in middle school, and another in high school. We were going in what seemed an infinite number of directions all the time. A TARDIS sure would have come in handy, but alas I am no Time Lord.
Now our pets are older, we've added some new ones, and the kids are grown and moved on to their own lives. We have more empty space in our house now and happier than ever as we look forward to adventures the next decade delivers to us.
-- ~elb
A tiny circle of friends, of a caliber many people seem to think is impossible to find, has been the only true constant since all hell broke loose in 2006. I’m very fortunate to have met them around that time, and to get to talk to them every week to some degree.
I encourage everyone to send a message of gratitude to your closest friends once in a while. None of us hear it or say it enough.
From: Jon Bell Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 3:11 PM To: tildeclub@lists.tildeverse.org Subject: Prompt #6: the decade
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
I'm living in the same house, which still isn't finished (bought as a major renovation project late 2007, will never really be done.)
It's the longest I've ever lived in one place since I was kid, and it's frankly a little bit terrifying how quickly time slips by without the major upheaval of a move to use as a point of reference in time.
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Jon Bell wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
I am also living in the same house, a different house than Andy. It is the longest I’ve lived anywhere, now that I think about it. I’ve lived here with my wife two weeks shy of 4,000 days. Our daughter has lived here, and just lived generally, for 90% of that time, almost exactly. The house has been occupied by someone for a month shy of 45,000 days. We have been renovating a bathroom for the last 1% of our time in this house. We opened the wall and found the name of a former resident, Sally, a teenager, written boldly on the interior drywall. Sally wrote her name and dated it in February 1959, almost exactly halfway through the lifespan of this house to date. How did she know she’d found the middle? Inspired by Sally, my daughter wrote her own name nearby on the drywall before we sealed it up again. The house, if it stands, will be 90,000 days old in January 2143. This is the middle, now.
—Ryan
On Sep 23, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Andy Chase moondog8@tilde.club wrote:
I'm living in the same house, which still isn't finished (bought as a major renovation project late 2007, will never really be done.)
It's the longest I've ever lived in one place since I was kid, and it's frankly a little bit terrifying how quickly time slips by without the major upheaval of a move to use as a point of reference in time.
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Jon Bell wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
On 9/23/19 3:45 PM, Andy Chase wrote:
It's the longest I've ever lived in one place since I was kid, and it's frankly a little bit terrifying how quickly time slips by without the major upheaval of a move to use as a point of reference in time.
See, it was the other way around for us: we bought a "starter" house in Wichita in 1995, and lived there "twenty years on the two-year plan," as Boeing folks used to say. ("I'm only going to stay a couple years, until I pay off the car|finish school|get the Christmas bonus" and they end up retiring from there.) And then we moved to the Jersey Pinelands/Shore in 2015, and then to the Philly outskirts in 2017, and suddenly we know "wow that was back in Wichita, that was at least four or five years ago!"
I still have the same job, amazingly. I'm still married to my wife, and we still have a kid, though she's 12 now and not 2 anymore... Everything else is different, pretty much. Different house in a different town. Different group of friends, different lifestyle.
September 23, 2019 8:10 PM, "Jon Bell" jb@lot23.com wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
_Apologies for duplicates. Getting the list sorted on my end._
I should introduce myself before replying to today's prompt. I'm Eric, aka ~elb, and work at a small marketing firm in Georgia (just south of Chattanooga, Tenn.) designing for web and print, managing project teams, and other tasks. Married, four grown kids, three dogs, three cats.
Yes, we know. Our vet has already informed us we're crazy.
Like most of you, I groaned when I first saw my inbox. I was on vacation in New Orleans and refused to deal with it at first. A closer inspection of those many emails was delightful. Saw some familiar names and new ones. I had a blast catching up on what everyone has been doing since our fledgling community came together in 2014.
Anyway, on to the prompt.
On 23 Sep 2019, at 15:10, Jon Bell wrote:
What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
Most things have changed for me during the past decade except for one constant, my wife. This is the third marriage for both of us, so the same cannot be said earlier decades.
The changes have been good for the most part. When we first got together we had two kids in elementary, one in middle school, and another in high school. We were going in what seemed an infinite number of directions all the time. A TARDIS sure would have come in handy, but alas I am no Time Lord.
Now our pets are older, we've added some new ones, and the kids are grown and moved on to their own lives. We have more empty space in our house now and happier than ever as we look forward to adventures the next decade delivers to us.
-- ~elb
I've lived in Canada for a (multiple of 5) years and I still haven't figured out how to have a social life here.
Retirement plan is about the same too (walk into the sea, made easier by rising ocean levels so I got that going for me).
Same condo, though I've gone from sharing it with one person to one person, our kid, a cat, and a dog.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 3:11 PM Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 07:10:44AM +1200, Jon Bell wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
Oh gosh. Almost everything has changed.
I briefly lived somewhere else, but this is the house I bought in 2009. So I guess there's that? Same relationship, same house, same dog, and a thousand things I never would have imagined or hoped for.
As a parent the last ten years have been filled consistently with a lot of running around to activities and school related things. My son is in his senior year now so this will be changing when he goes off to college, or rather reducing to just having one left to run around! Should be interesting.
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Jon Bell wrote:
The 2010s are nearly done. 2020 is about two months away.
A lot has changed. What’s something that is pretty much the same for you compared to 2009?
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