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re: What was your life like in the year 1998?
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:53 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:53 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
A lot of people were with me who have since passed on.
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Posted on 2/18/26 at 4:02 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Had just taken a severance and with it a few months of planned sabbatical between jobs.
So I was spending weeks at a time paddling Class V whitewater and trad climbing until recovering enough for a few more weeks and rinse and repeat.. . .and again.
It was a very good year.
So I was spending weeks at a time paddling Class V whitewater and trad climbing until recovering enough for a few more weeks and rinse and repeat.. . .and again.
It was a very good year.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 4:35 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:Palo Alto, CA
Where were you living?
quote:19. Cooking at a Cajun restaurant for a chef from NOLA who fit the old chef stereotype perfectly. Drunk, loud, and a lot of fun. He was always throwing awesome parties and he let the entire kitchen drink for free at the bar after close every night (which I'm sure played a part in his going out of business the end of that year).
What were you doing?
quote:Just getting my ducks in a row to enlist which I did the end of that year.
What was your trajectory at the time?
Posted on 2/18/26 at 4:44 pm to northshorebamaman
I was in Phoenix making cash, living a great life, and fishing 3 or 4 times/week 
Posted on 2/18/26 at 4:59 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
You answer first. Is this the year you were born?
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:08 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I was in Austin working for a large heavy highway company as an estimator two years out of college. Me and my office mate would go out drinking every night and developed a network of bartenders that poured better and charged less. It was a glorious time.
I ended up getting transferred to Houston and hated it and quit 6 weeks later. Made the move to commercial construction.
I ended up getting transferred to Houston and hated it and quit 6 weeks later. Made the move to commercial construction.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:11 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Fort Hood, Texas then moved to Wiesbaden, Germany.
Army
Year 6 on my way to retiring at 20
Army
Year 6 on my way to retiring at 20
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:12 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I worked in downtown NOLA and hung out in a midcity bar almost every night.
Rented an apartment for $350/month.
No savings.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:15 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Around this time of year in 1998 I was a few months from graduating HS
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:20 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
RGV Texas
In 8th grade
Heading towards high school.
Just got the urge to turn on TRL and goon to Britney in the Sometimes video
In 8th grade
Heading towards high school.
Just got the urge to turn on TRL and goon to Britney in the Sometimes video
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:20 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Well if today, 1998, I was a Jr. in high school. I think my girlfriend at the time broke up with me soon after Mardi Gras.
I was pissed, had a track meet a day or two later, ran mad and won. She was just what I needed!
No idea what my trajectory was at the time. Was doing pretty good in school, I suppose, and thought I wanted to major in engineering. I ended up not majoring in engineering.
I was pissed, had a track meet a day or two later, ran mad and won. She was just what I needed!
No idea what my trajectory was at the time. Was doing pretty good in school, I suppose, and thought I wanted to major in engineering. I ended up not majoring in engineering.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I was a JR at LSU. Partying a lot, lived in Tigerland at the time. It's a hellscape now, but it wasn't bad in 1998.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:36 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Went to boot camp Jan 1998. Then off to Germany during the summer.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:49 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
Where were you living? What were you doing? What was your trajectory at the time?
Lafayette.
Working and waiting for my second son with my first wife.
Professionally, my trajectory was upward. Relationally my marriage was shitty. As Buffet once said, “On top of all that I got married to early/Cost me much more than a ring.” But I got my sons out of it, and I’d pay the price again 100 times for that.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:55 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Living in what was a very nice city called Center Point, AL and was my graduation year.
I was doing a girl named Stephanie ... A lot ... And living a very good life.
Military .
I was doing a girl named Stephanie ... A lot ... And living a very good life.
Military .
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:01 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Watching that one scene in Wild Things until I basically destroyed the VHS tape!
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:03 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
I’m 1998 I was a couple of years into my engineering career and working towards paying off student loans. Living in Denver and life wasn’t too bad at all.
Now, after nearly 30-year career I have retired. I can definitively say that, though life wasn’t too bad pretty sweet at that time, life is better in retirement!
Now, after nearly 30-year career I have retired. I can definitively say that, though life wasn’t too bad pretty sweet at that time, life is better in retirement!
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:06 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Playing PlayStation, watching MTV, and drinking cookies and cream Nesquik.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:16 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:I was 15/16 in 1998
What was your life like in the year 1998?
If I’m being honest, by the end of 1998 there was probably zero hope for me growing up to be a functional member of society.
This photo describes my ‘98
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:25 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
High school. Working at Movieland Video. Best job ever.
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