Party Like It's 1999
Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 09:49AM 
I can't help but think back to New Year's Eve 1999. It was a heady time. The dot com boom was in full blast--the Dow was at 11,500 (ask your stock broker about that the next time he tells you the average return is 10 percent annually over the long haul--he'll have some BS answer, but at least it will make him squirm for a moment). People weren't sure if Y2K was just a computer geek's wet dream, or if computer gliches would indeed shut us down and send us into a post-2000 dystopian steampunk future. Little did we know that the zero decade would be dystopic for sure, but due more to George Bush and Dick Cheney than computer gliches. And speaking of politics, we were just completing a year in which Bill Clinton narrowly avoided impeachment for having an affair with a chubby, not all that bright or attractive, intern.
Personally, I was just coming off a great year with my new business and looking forward to a great year in 2000. Mary and I were working hard at having a baby and were looking for a new house.
Dick Cheney, Dot Com Crash, George Bush, Monica Lewinsky, Zero Decade in Creative