Thoughts from December 7 to 28, 1999

December 7, 1999

As I have said before, everything goes on and on and on …

December 9, 1999

Apparently, I was right. It took me two days to get on with this entry and it has been (as always) several months since my last entry.

December 21, 1999

Okay, I’ll admit, I don’t seem to have an adequate amount of time to fill in the entries of my life. The other dilemma is I don’t have anything to say. I’m working on this whole “animation thing,” but it’s taking time. I say “animation thing” in quotes because it is still just an indescribable entity in my life. It’s not my job, it’s not my side career … it’s barely even a hobby. I know more about animation, especially computer animation, than I ever have, but I need to use it in real situations. I need to get paid for it. I can do a great deal with my life, but I’m not doing it! Why? (I think I understated that question. Let me try again.) I’M A WORTHLESS PIECE OF CRAP! WHY?!!! There … I think that says it best.

Look at this, I’m already starting my second paragraph. I wanted to mention, I’m reading a book by Steve Martin. It’s extremely funny. (It’s called “Pure Drivel.”) It’s an old book (of course, this depends upon when I read this – which could be quite a while considering how long it took me to write it), but it reminds me somewhat of my papers and thoughts.

I should add December 28, 1999, at this point since half of the last paragraph was written then.

(Future note: Even though this is several days of entries, they barely equaled enough words for one day. You paid a great deal of money to see these words and I want to give you value for that money. [As of this writing, no one has paid anything to read these words.] I just thought I would add a bit about the hysteria that was Y2K. In case you don’t know, it stood for the year 2000. Many older computers didn’t expect to go beyond the year 1999. It was the default highest year. I was working at the group home at this point and I ran software on the computers to prevent them from exploding when they got to the year 2000. There was no chance of them exploding, but you’d think they were going to explode by the way some people reacted. Computer nerds knew it was no big deal, and they made fun of non-computer people. There were cartoons making fun of the hysteria before 2000 was even here. Cartoons take a while to animate, as this Thoughts paper indicates. They had to know this was going to be something to make fun of early in 1999. This is why I get my information from cartoons and not the news. It was the perfect lesson for people to learn not to freak out about things they don’t understand, but they went right back to watching the news and freaking out when they survived the Y2K bug. I think it was more of a feature to get people to buy new computers. I think it mostly worked. This future note basically doubled the word count in this Thoughts paper. You’re welcome. Come again.)