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re: What was your life like in the year 1998?
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:10 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:10 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
14 south Louisiana
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Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:11 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Probably stocking up on bagel bites and Mountain Dew while listening to Fastball as me and the 9th grade homies prepared to watch Metro Atlantan Jeff Sheppard dominate in the NCAAT
Maybe some AOL chatroom action, a Blockbuster night here and there
Perhaps the peak of civilization
Maybe some AOL chatroom action, a Blockbuster night here and there
Perhaps the peak of civilization
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:13 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
BR
Life was good, bartending, making plenty of money, had a gf, and lots of friends to party with.
Life was good, bartending, making plenty of money, had a gf, and lots of friends to party with.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:18 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Got my license end of that year, I was on Dad's payroll and he paid well!
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:19 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Junior year of college at Wisconsin, living at 699 W Mifflin (right by the Kohl Center) with buddies, Ron Dayne was terrorizing defenses and Badger football was about to peak. Used to get drunk at our apt and head to State St with maybe $16 in my pocket to crush $2 swamp waters at Brothers.
Life was good.
Life was good.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:25 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Senior year at Bama... Great year. Maybe one of the best of my life.
I was only taking a couple classes to wrap up my degree and I had worked construction for a couple summers and got my certification to be a forklift operator. I landed a random job that I'd work from about 7:00am to noon and was making about $30 an hour running a forklift at a warehouse. My rent was $300 a month, school was paid off and I had a ton of free time and for that age and more money in my pocket than ever before.
Lots of partying, lots of late nights. It was a time I look back on fondly... now if Bama didn't suck at football during that stretch, it would have been even better.
I was only taking a couple classes to wrap up my degree and I had worked construction for a couple summers and got my certification to be a forklift operator. I landed a random job that I'd work from about 7:00am to noon and was making about $30 an hour running a forklift at a warehouse. My rent was $300 a month, school was paid off and I had a ton of free time and for that age and more money in my pocket than ever before.
Lots of partying, lots of late nights. It was a time I look back on fondly... now if Bama didn't suck at football during that stretch, it would have been even better.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:33 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Had moved back to New Orleans, had a one year old child, a better job and had just bought my first house in Old Metairie. Life was great. Trajectory was up.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:35 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Senior in college and only had 2 classes my last semester. Not a care in the world. I'd go back in a heartbeat.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:42 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
2 years out of LSU
Married
1st child was born
Living in BR
Got hired by the company I still work for to this day.
Married
1st child was born
Living in BR
Got hired by the company I still work for to this day.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:47 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Where were you living?
A shitty area of Central Fresno. I think it was declared the most economically depressed neighborhood in the city a few years back.
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What were you doing?
Working 12 hour shifts at a factory making the plastic liners for adult diapers and raising a newborn baby girl with my girlfriend at the time (who would be my future ex wife a few years later).
she is a train wreck and doesn't really have any contact with our daughter. quote:
What was your trajectory at the time?
Things are waaaaaaaaay freaking better right now. The 2nd wife is awesome. We'll celebrate our 24th anniversary in a couple months. Life is good. Business is good. Family is good. I can't complain at all.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:51 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Busting my arse as a SGT/E-5 Abrams tank crewmember in the 1st Cavalry Division at Ft Hood, TX.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:51 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Hitting dingers against the best arms in St Tammany parish. 10 year old all stars.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:52 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
What was your life like in the year 1998?
quote:
What were you doing?
watching Mississippi State join the illustrious list of teams that won an SEC West Championship outright and play in Atlanta
her is the list.
Alabama
LSU
Mississippi State
Arkansas
Auburn
sorry if I left anyone out.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:53 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
98---junior in HS. That was a fun year. That's the only year I look back on and miss from time to time.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:56 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:nashville
Where were you living?
quote:same thing i'm doing now
What were you doing?
quote:new wife, new son, first house, barely making enough money to make ends meet.
What was your trajectory at the time?
Posted on 2/18/26 at 2:00 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
School, working at Fred's, having the time of my life...
Posted on 2/18/26 at 2:08 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Junior in high school and was fricking my girlfriend and playing football with no cares in the world. No bills, complete freedom. It was glorious
Posted on 2/18/26 at 2:11 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
Where were you living?
OKC
quote:
What were you doing?
4 years into my IT career, in an experience-building phase. Worked for a couple ISPs and a IT certification training company.
quote:
What was your trajectory at the time?
This personally put some things into perspective. I was 2 years away from marrying someone who was not a good fit, wound up divorcing after 11 years. I wanted to get married because I was approaching 30 years old and thought "there is nothing more to life, I better get started on growing a family." I was learning how to make better decisions, and getting out of the purgatory I had built for myself for the prior 10 years of poor decisions. My career trajectory was taking off but I wanted more money, and later in 2000 an opportunity of a lifetime presented itself, which I jumped on and never looked back. Until just now
Posted on 2/18/26 at 2:16 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
5 years out of college. Working for Chevron in the SF Bay area. Hiking, biking, horse riding with friends.
Good Times.
Good Times.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 2:19 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Going into Senior year at LSU. Slowed down a bit socially, but only because I realized I actually needed to graduate. A great time to be a Tiger, for sure!
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