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how do you all feel about 26? I'm expecting good things.

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

25 was pretty good, 24 was meh, really, 23 was A+++

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i had my quarter century crisis at 26.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I was not crazy about 24. In retrospect, 30-anything has been much better than 20-anything.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

26 was decent. Did a lot of snowshoeing and rode some good trails with my bros that year. Had a few dalliances with teh ladiez. Work sucked, but then I quit and moved to Chicago!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

also: i wish amanda had warned me earlier that i'd be 30 at 29. i would've treated last year with the reckless abandon of someone in their late 20s.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry! You've not yet completed your 30th year, so you don't have your 30-badge yet, but you are experiencing the tender buds of your 30s right now.

I am vastly happier at 31 than I was at 21. I was a reckless, shiftless, aimless person at 21. Now I feel a little bit calmer and a lot happier. Less like jumping around all the time, but more content. I like the 30s.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes I can't believe that on 09/06/07, I will be 30 and married. IT'S CRAZY! And yet... not so crazy. It will be a lot like now with just a few minor adjustments.

I'm feeling a lot more sick now, so Nick is going to pick me up early. Sadly though, he's coming all the way from Evanston. Owww!

― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

if i could wake up tomorrow and be 27 but have to die at 33 i'd take that in a heart beat.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That Owwww! was in response to belly pains.

Huh. I wouldn't. What happened when you were 27? Whenever I fantasize about going back to an earlier point in my life, I only imagine it happening with me knowing what I know now. Otherwise, I really don't feel a need to relive it.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

For someone who's as obsessive about dates as I am, I have difficulty distinguishing one year from the next in terms of quality. Each year has its ups and downs.

Also, are you guys able to remember what it was like "at age 24" without calculating what year it was? I have no idea what I did when I was 24, but if you remind me that it was 2003, everything comes into focus.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

same deal with me, it's all kind of a blur between 20 and 25 then 25 to 27 then 27 to 31 then 31 to today. i'm not very good at remembering exact dates but if you give me a year i think i'm a little sharper.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

What happened when you were 27?

happy, moderately successful, plenty of discretionary cash, madly in love, moved to chicago, body was still able to take a pounding and bounce back.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I associate feelings a lot more with ages than I do with years. It would take some serious cross-referencing to figure out exactly what I was doing in 2002.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

That's so weird.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I never think about the fact that I'm 27, but I think about how it's 2006 all the time. What happened when I was 24? Dunno. But 2002? Oh yeah, that's when the band started, we played that Belle & Sebastian cover-song show at Schubas in June, TAG also started, Mark was in Vienna and Kelsey was in Portland, Maine, for the first few months of the year, I stayed in his room and learned how to fingerpick and read John Cheever and listened to Kings of Convenience, I read Updike's Rabbit trilogy that summer and drank a 6-pack of Schlitz by myself while reading a Gail Gr1ff1n book I ordered from Amazon and went to NYC with my family for Christmas/New Year's and saw The 25th Hour, which was my favorite of the year, and back in the winter I saw Bosco & Jorge at the California Clipper for a few Sundays in a row with Nicolas and Hstencil and met this Canadian girl named BJ M00re who asked me if I wanted to see Neal Pollack at the Hideout with her, and I was too dumb to realize she was asking me out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

when I was _____

it was a very good year

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, that makes me feel like I have no memory/recall. It would take a lot of association to come up with so many specific scenes like that.

BJ M00re

But this I would have remembered.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Like, if somebody mentioned a specific gig, I could probably remember the songs we played and the jokes people made etc. etc. But with a range of time like, uh, "last year" I have a hard time grouping things together and remember, y'know?

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been giving myself a little self-test and have come to the conclusion that i can't remember when anything ever happened. the best i can do is verify that something did or did not happen. usually i can further narrow that down to "that was in my 20s" or "that was in my 30s" but it's kind of hinky for 29-30.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

my_life.xls

most of my memories are pretty vague w/r/t the actual, REAL date in question. like, i remember chasing a coyote with my car through downtown aspen at two in the morning, stoned and sorta drunk, in the middle of a snowstorm, plowing through snowbanks and whatever, but my reference frame is "the winter after I graduated college," not Feb(?). 04, you know?

also, i'm still trapped in a student/ski bum mentality, where my "years" are actually from fall to fall, not jan 1 to dec. 31.

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm with you, John. Today at lunch my coworkers were all talking about the parties they had for their Sweet 16, but I had to think about it in terms of what year it was, where I was in school...

― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

also, i'm still trapped in a student/ski bum mentality, where my "years" are actually from fall to fall, not jan 1 to dec. 31.

Still slowly working my way out of that, myself.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, I'm trying to write a general intro to software testing for work, and I tried to find ideas online and came up with this:

In other words, you can consider an example as: suppose you are a good cook and are expecting some guests at dinner. You start making dinner; you make few very very very delicious dishes (off-course, those which you already know how to make). And finally, when you are about to finish making the dishes, you ask someone (or you yourself) to check if everything is fine and there is no extra salt/chili/anything, which if is not in balance, can ruin your evening (This is what called 'TESTING').

This procedure you follow in order to make it sure that you do not serve your guests something that is not tasty! Otherwise your collar will go down and you will regret over your failure!

2. Why we go for testing?

Well, while making food, its ok to have something extra, people might understand and eat the things you made and may well appreciate your work. But this isn't the case with Software Project Development. If you fail to deliver a reliable, good and problem free software solution, you fail in your project and probably you may loose your client. This can get even worse!

You don't want your collar to go down WTF

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds vaguely Japanese.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Indian.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Ahhh. It was the "you will regret over your failure" part that made me think that.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

wow. 2002 i was in portland. crazy.
then i guess i remember that year in shifts. everything was shifting. i quit my job to go to school in portland. i was feeling resentful toward the person i was dating & knew it would end but i just didn't want to realize it quite yet. knowing what i know now, i think i would've broken things off before i ever left for portland but whatever. my friendship with john grew back into a comfortable place, my friendship with emily was at its strongest (& has since fallen back). when i came back from portland everything happened very quickly. relationship ended, i started to crave living alone, my internship with TAL started. then the 'slut phase' of my life took off for a while.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

PORTLAND!! MARK'S SHOWPLACE!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I keep trying to have a "slut phase" but it never seems to work.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I know, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Try dudes.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

No dudes hit on me at the gay bars this weekend, it wz kinda depressing.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i wouldn't want anything to do with a slut anymore, nor would i care to be one.

i'm beyond old and veering towards decrepit now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i could handle a slut-phase.

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Honestly, the slut phase is one of the main reasons I remember my 20's so unfondly.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"there's strings attached to every single lover"
-The Hold Steady

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

For reals.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

(see also: i am not discussing my slut phase on the internet)

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Ya srsly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

as soon as i mentioned it i had second thoughts. there will be no further details.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, it's best to leave the details to the mind's of the chilx denizens. that's a much safer route.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah sorry, I didn't mean to make anyone uncomfortable... honestly I don't really need such a phase and find it pretty seamy and pointless, which is probably why I have failed so many times at acting that way.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Sweetheart, stop while you're behind: you've just suggested that everyone else's slut phases were "seamy and pointless". :D

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

honestly, though, laurel -- what was the point?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to change the topic now. I went to a clothing swap last night and scored this sweet pair of boots -- they're sort of like Mondrian boots, but instead of having white and red and black, they're just red and black. So cute. I also got some other stuff. It's like Christmas came early and I have whole new wardrobe!
http://www.cetteadressecomportecinquantesignes.com/Mondrian_fichiers/image004.jpg
It's good, because I was starting to feel really goddamn frumpy. My (1) grey hair made another unwelcome appearance.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm okay with the fact that i had the phase, but i also would be perfectly content & happy without it too.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/101803/quality-assurance.gif

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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