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Recording my third music album in Berlin and it turned out to be the best of all records I have done so far in my life.

Getting ready to graduate college, and help build a better world...

Things did not go as planned.

I think I was fresh off my divorce and in my man-whore era. Owned my own house. Had lots of friends and played a lot of roleplaying games. Lots of World of Warcraft.

I guess I'd say I was at peak personal freedom. I had money, time, and minimal responsibility. It felt awesome. Then apparently you were born and fucked it all up.

Kidding. Things were cool for a good while. Few years later got bit by the bug to settle down and have kids of my own, which was a big transition to a different kind of enjoying life. Lots of good memories from 2007. If I could go back in time and live my life over starting at any point, that's probably about when I'd choose.

I learned this trick where if I sold mortgages as a bundle deal, they would be considered less risky than if I were to sell those mortgages separately. It tuns out I could just keep doing this and make a ton of money and there was absolutely no downside!

I was sailing the North Atlantic and being black out drunk while ashore. I think I had a couple port visits in the states, but mostly just patrols of Canadian waters

In 2007 I left everything and everyone I knew behind, and moved to another country across the ocean

I graduated highschool in 2007.

I was burning CDs off of mp3' I downloaded, someone taught me how to use IRC (internet relay chat). I had a lot of NoFx, and was really getting into Punk music from the 90s. I spent a lot of time downloading/seeding music. I had an old computer I can still visualize.

Internet dating was brand new, and I dipped my toe in. We would have parties with 10-15 people, and played beer pong with beer in the cups, not water, I learned kings cup, and shortly after refused to play it.. but we also played cards a lot, five card stud/draw and Rummy. My group loved card games, we'd play Bullshit and Spoons while wasting late into the night.

For a time, I was going with some buddies Friday nights to the capital city, where they'd have car races, and then we'd be chased away by cops. Not my scene, but it was sort of fun.

Weed wasn't legal and obtaining it was not difficult but more expensive. I paid $60 for an 1/8 for the good stuff, $40 an 1/8 for the shit stuff. Today, there is no shit stuff, least I haven't seen it in over a decade. We made a giant bong out of a water cooler jug, that summer, attaching hoses and gas mask pieces. It took a half to fill the bowl on it, and when we woke up the next morning, the chamber still jad smoke. Ten people, and we couldn't clear it. We used to have "smoking apparatus" competitions. We'd set 20 mins, and you can only use what was in the house to make something to smoke out of. Then see what people came up with.

We'd go swimming and (lol a lot a weed, we were always trying to find place to smoke the more interesting the better) we'd stick joints and lighters into dry empty bottles and swim with it out to the docks at midnight and smoke under moonlight. One time, my brothers friend was on the junior police force or something, and we were at the lake after hours, and he rolled up and hit is siren he had intalled in his geo. We buried the blunt in the sand :( only to find out it was him. Aye those days.

One night we stayed up and played the longest game of mario party of all time. Nearly 18 hours of mario party, on an old game cube. We set the turn limit to max and just didnt sleep.

But we we're always hanging out with folks. I was a social reject and still had good people always around. There are no pictures really and definitely no videos from that time, only memories. We didn't bring phones with us out to the dock, we didn't post about our adventures. I had a lot of fun. We did some cringe shit, I remember telling my brother's friend, who I wasn't physically attracted to, that I wanted to fuck his mind, like I think back, like girl, what are you doing, and laugh. So much cringe shit, but it didn't matter, and tbf, I meant it in that moment. We often spoke about existential stuff and discussed weird philosophy of 18 year olds trying to find their place and values. I read old books. I still read 100 year old books. We talked about ideas, a lot, while stoned.

Went to college shortly after, got a job, learned my tolerance with alcohol, and yeah.

2007 was an interesting year for sure, I'm only sharing what I did in my free time, which was hang out with buddies, with no cares.

My son was 3 and I had recently made the decision to be a stay at home dad. So parks, play dates, and household chores! He’s now in college and I’m working that 40 hour grind and reflect on these as some of my best memories!

Runescape

The company I was working for went bankrupt (part of the mobile phone market disruptions that latter also killed off Nokia) and I had to find a new job.
Moved near my hometown, a few months later meeting my now wife.
Eventful times for me! 🙂

I was probably drunk

In 2007, I made a VirtualBox virtual machine with Windows XP, and basically all the software I could get my hands on at the time. It's something of a time capsule of computers of the era. I call it Blue Emerald.

Gettin' tortured by my family for the gay, leaving home as a minor, learning to steal, learning how good a liar I could be, losing every person place and pet I loved for the first of several times. Sleeping in a lot of unusual places.

Eating mushrooms with the homies in the woods instead of going to prom. Zero regrets, would do it again.

LAN parties.

Half-way through Sixth Form (end of high school before uni in the UK) and working a retail job.

Was going to gigs in London and local house parties any opportunity I could

Apart from that a lot of TF2

I got engaged 🥰

ETL ERP via SQL

To approve a corporate merger the Federal Trade Commission required us to sell off a division to prevent having a monopolistic market share. To avoid software licensing complexities and for business continuity, the purchaser was allowed to be umbrellaed under our existing software license and remained hosted on our servers for two years. Environment was CA-PRMS Enterprise Resource Planning on an IBM I-series. Created a new instance, updated key values while porting master files and transaction history data into the new instance. Scrubbed same data from old instance. Set security to prevent cross access. Hard due date or merger would be cancelled. Federal auditors inspected through process. Trickiest was incomplete transactions like a partially complete work order, AR unapplied cash or AP/PO partial match in receiving. Some of the most challenging fun I had in 30 years of IT

I was an incredibly awkward high school student in 2007. Coincidentally, I think that's the year I really got into alcohol...

Started working at the Apple Store. That was a 5 year journey that spanned 3 states.

I was 30 but I remember 2007 about as well as you do. I think indie music was good? You could still go to a bar and see a cool band most nights?

I was in my early 20s and had the best times of my life. I just moved out of my parents' home and lived in a place with a friend. Since I was one of the first to do so, our place was a very big hangout for other friends. I had a real job that I just started in 2006 but didn't care much about it like I sadly do today (still at the same place). I discovered what I love, which was music and beer. We went on half country road trips to hit up breweries and bring home the best beer we couldn't get back home. I went to concerts in NY weekly, and around this time, I had a record 180 concerts in 1 year. Had the time of my life just hanging out doing everything I wanted to.

Not much happened until October when The Orange Box came out. After Oct 10th, I was just playing TF2 all the time and acting as Community Ambassador/Event Coordinator for a popular set of servers.

I can't recall anything in particular - I was working, I had a dog... But I had a look at a "what's in my bag" photo I took that year, and it included a cheque book, a diary, a Nokia phone, a Palm Pilot, an MP3 player, a compact digital camera and a portable radio. All of which have been superseded by one single device. Amazing.

By April of 2007 I had completely burned myself out working for my third tech startup in the Boston area. By the end of April I was in New Zealand followed by Australia on a month+ long solo trip to unwind and recover from the burnout.

Long enough ago that everything blurs together but would have celebrated a third wedding anniversary. This year was 21.

starting high school in a different town. biking a lot to get around (work, friends, school), playing a fair bit of guitar that I got a year earlier, tons of call of duty modern warfare after school (pretty much my first online game experience other than RuneScape), teaching kids to ski in the winter, washing dishes at a restaurant year round, and I think I got a 'real' job at the hardware store that year, too

oh and Christmas still had snow, I think

My son turned 10. I was 1 year into my job that I still have, climbing communication towers. Mostly for cell phone companies. But also state, DNR, and DOT towers.

Wasn't making the best decisions before and was living in my sisters extra room. This is where I turned things around.

Edit: spelling

Preparing for my high school graduation exams, playing computer games and drawing shit.

I think I won most improved in Drama Club? I know I won something. I was in primary school.

Recording an EP, going to lots of concerts, writing for a couple of magazines, working at a coffee shop, drinking too much, living in a little studio apartment, binding books with salvaged leather from roadside furniture.

I had just finished high school and enrolled in TAFE (think vocational/skills training) studying a certificate III in IT, then certificate 4. Then in 2008 an advanced diploma in network security.

I've forgotten most of the specifics over time, but the core ideas I've picked up then and along the way have definitely helped in my current IT job.

Backpacked through Europe for a couple of weeks.

Freelance developer and picking up some stray jobs here and there. It was the last year before landing something steady that became my full time career that I still do to this day.

But those debugging hours and stray jobs showed the kind of versatility my next job would need.

I graduated with a degree in Mathematics and ended up working part time delivering newspapers.