I thought that, maybe, I had imported one of my old entries that would have covered Memorial Day of 1999. Nope. I didn’t actually start writing on OD until a few months later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The impetus was watching the kinda nasty weather here in the Beltway Swamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember being at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront with friends, one of whom had posted something on Facebook last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was cold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Search around to see what the date of Memorial Day was in 1999; May 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’d been warm during the day, but rain had moved in, and we were shivering, looking for restaurants where the underage amongst the group could get in. (Yes, I was underage, myself, but my ID said I was four years older than I was because the clerk at the DMV in Biloxi read my “9” as a “5.” I wrote my numbers like a European. It’s like I grew up there or something..)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But this Memorial Day isn’t as late as it was in 1999. Even through I’m 200 miles north, the weather is remarkably similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I was healthy enough, though it looks like the rain is pretty much finished, I think my experience would be similar. I doubt if those old shorts are around they’d fit. And there’s no way I’d be able to keep top-siders on my feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, back to the subject, I do want to pound things out. I need to sample through the writing prompts I got as a birthday present, and set some of those up for use later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do I do my summer streak?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I probably shouldn’t do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do I write on. my trip next month? Mmmm. Consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n