Eight years of hard labor, now seems suddenly to fade away....

Geez, I missed it again.  June 23, 2013 was the 8th Anniversary of Polt's Palace!

Eight years.....if the Palace was m kid, it'd be getting ready to start 3rd grade in the fall!

June 23, 2005........

Dad, Angel, and Ted Kennedy were still alive.  Katrina was just a girls name and meant nothing to New Orleans.  Barack Obama wasn't even six months into his US Senate term.  Hillary Clinton was a US Senator from New York.  Joe Biden was a US Senate from Delaware.  And Vice President Dick Cheney was telling other Senators to "Go fuck yourself" on the floor of the US Senate.

Bossy Know-It-All Coworker was still being the Queen Bitch at work (instead of working at a gas station like she is now!  Ah, poetic justice, what a fine creature you are.)  I had yet to meet Kris (which is a good thing, since he was still in HIGH SCHOOL at that time!!!!).   The ParisPekings were recently married, although still childless.  Ag was my closest friend.  I was driving Miss Cleo, renting the apartment, and making trip to Toronto twice annually.

I had not yet met any of the Puntabugang....and in fact, at that point in time, there was no such thing as a Puntabugang.  Or  Puntabulous either for that matter.  Nor Cocky And Rude.  Nor Coopers Corner.  Nor any of the others.

I had a house phone and a crappy little cellphone.  I had dialup Internet service.  I still had more video tapes than I did DVDs.  I was still occasionally buying porn magazines.  And I was still buying my weekly comic books with anticipation instead of nearly giving up on them as I am now.

I played Dungeons & Dragons every other Sunday with a group of people I haven't seen in years now.  I had yet to watch a single episode of Doctor Who.  I weighed around 40 pounds more than I do now.  I had not yet heard any music by Muse.  I had not yet been to Long Island, the Stonewall Inn, or Columbus Ohio.  Sandra Day O'Connor was still on the Supreme Court.  Ed Rendell was governor of PA.

And I was only 37 years old.

*SIGH*....where HAS the time gone?

POLT