- Random number between 1999 and 2015 = 1999
- Random number between 1 and 12 = 6
- Random number between 1 and 31 (or 30 or 28 or 29) = 17
Sherman, today we’ve set the WayBack Machine about as far as we can go and still have digital photos. Given the pictures from that day, let’s use three instead of one. If nothing else, they prove that I have no shame.
From the picture set, I’m guessing that the pictures were actually taken by my son, who would have been fifteen at the time. We might have still been in the learning curve phase with digital cameras.
Yes, I was almost certainly using that tone of voice. In the last sixteen years I’ve tried to be more aware of when I start lecturing, and as a rule I think I do pretty well with keeping it locked up these days, but back in the day, a single dad with three teenagers, I might have occasionally had that face and used the “Dad voice.”
I just hadn’t realized now that, intentionally or not, I had been caught on camera doing it.
Finally, the picture I was looking for.
This was before I met The Long-Suffering Wife, so I’m thinking this “cookie bouquet” was from my mother for some reason. (It almost certainly wasn’t because I had been good.) I was probably taking the picture to email to my father to show to my mother and thank her for them.
Looking back almost sixteen years, my hair was much darker, I wore it longer, and I had those stupid glasses. Still had the same kind of pen (Parker Jotter) in my pocket, still looked like me.
Laser eye surgery was one of the best moves I ever made. I hated the way I looked in those glasses.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 