March 24, 2010

  • In The Year 2000

    For some reason, every year I do a post that is dedicated to 10 years ago, just to remember events and things from 10 years ago. Of course, this year, we look back at the year 2000.

    • Remember the Y2K bug? Turns out it was nothing.
    • Sony launched Play Station 2. Man, just look at how far video games have come. Hell nowawdays they do everything but jerk us off.
    • January 30, 2000- The St. Louis Rams win one of the most exciting Super Bowls ever.
    • February 13, 2000- Peanuts creator Charles Schultz kicked it old school.
    • March 26, 2000- Vladimir Putin elected president of Russia. 10 years later he is still creepy.
    • April 22, 2000- Remember the whole Elian Gonzalez saga? Well it was on this day that federal agents seized him from his relatives home in Miami and returned him to his father via Federal Express.
    • April 25, 2000- The state of Vermont legalizes civil unions for same sex couples. Now it finally had something to be known for besides screen doors.
    • May 4, 2000- Remember the ILOVEYOU computer virus? Well this was the day it was unleashed on the world, ironically making people hate their computers.
    • October 12, 2000- The USS Cole is attacked by Al-Qaeda killing 17 and wounding 39. Gee, I wonder if we ever caught the leader of Al-Qaeda?
    • November 7, 2000- The election of 2000 was like none other in American history. Remember waiting 6 weeks to find out who won and then having George W Bush appointed president by the Supreme Court? Is it just me or was that the biggest damn mistake they ever made?
    • The world population was over 6 billion people.

    Here were some of the songs that were released in 2000:

    • Again- Lenny Kravitz
    • AM Radio- Everclear
    • Beautiful Day- U2
    • Bombs Over Baghdad (B.O.B.)- Outkast
    • Deep Inside Of You- Third Eye Blind
    • Down With The Sickness- Disturbed
    • Follow Me- Uncle Kracker
    • Hanging By A Moment- Lifehouse
    • It's My Life- Bon Jovi
    • Last Resort- Papa Roach
    • Music- Madonna
    • One Step Closer- Linkin Park
    • Outside- Staind
    • Pinch Me- Barenaked Ladies
    • Renegades Of Funk- Rage Against The Machine
    • Right Now- SR-71
    • Stan- Eminem
    • Superman (It's Not Easy)- Five For Fighting

    Here were some of the movies from 2000:

    • How The Grinch Stole Christmas
    • Cast Away
    • Gladiator
    • Meet The Parents
    • Scary Movie
    • Me, Myself & Irene
    • Almost Famous

    Here were some of the top tv shows from 2000

    • Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
    • ER
    • Friends
    • The Practice
    • Touched By An Angel
    • Daddio
    • Dharma And Greg
    • The Drew Carey Show

    As for my own life in 2000, on January 2 my mom died, but that has been documented here before. It was her death though that led me to later finally get a job with health insurance and benefits, but that wasn't until 2001. In this day and age of the health care debate, I went about 6 or 7 years without health insurance, and 2000 was one of those years. In March of 2000, I took a road trip to Florida with my friend Jt. The trip was cut short because of a reason that I can not get into on here. Also in October of 2000, myself and 3 friends took a weekend trip to St. Louis to go to some haunted houses if you can believe that. It wound up being a very fun trip, the haunted houses were great. And I won money at their casino down there.

    So that was 2000. Doesn't seem that long ago, does it?

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