so all my rowdy twitter friends are doing this #10yearsago tweets. i thought i'd actually create a little list and see what i can remember from the last decade.
- i moved to nashville and began "my career" in youth ministry the first days of january 2000. since then i've staffed at three churches, one secular hiatus career, and a stint at rei.
- i might not have owned a cell phone 10 years ago.. its hard to say. my first phone was some sprint flip open phone. i'll have to do some investigating on that one.
- 10 years ago, socially, i wasn't married and didn't have a child.. so that stuff is relatively new
- in the last 10 years i've had my work published in a few books, a cdrom project, and a number of articles.. i think that's pretty cool for someone who needed spell & grammar check to get out of university
- i actually graduated from college 10 years ago. i wasn't finished with my degree when i left the university of alabama. i told them i was going to nashville to finish up (my internship) and take a job offered to me. they told me my gpa wasn't high enough to leave town for my internship, i said tough, i'm going.. a few months later & a lot of paperwork, i had a college degree. (i didn't do the graduation walk for another year when little bro got a grad degree)
- 10 years ago Coe was my companion.. she was younger then and a little more spry & mischievous. she would open the gate to the house i lived in at that time and would go rolling in the dirt at the mulch company behind our house and thru some woods. would also take my brothers corgi with her. bath's were a regular occurrence in our house.
- 10 years ago darren & i would pontificate the deepest theology for some 25 yr old dudes over cigars and cheep beer in our backyard..
- 10 years ago my house had an answering machine... i suppose it also had some phone attached to a wall with like 500mghtz of power where you can walk down the street talking. big time!!
- 10 years ago i was thinner... care not to expand on that further.. 'expand,' sorry, wrong wording
- 10 years ago i remember watching the millennial celebrations all freakin day long
- 10 years ago i watched the music city miracle on a fuzzy tv that didn't have cable hooked up yet (remember, check out #1, just moved to nashville)
- 10 years ago had no idea what blogging, twitter, facebook, were (cause they weren't invented silly).. but i did build a kick-ass youth group & website with a bunch of java script enabled games
so the many things that did happen the last decade will have to wait for another posting.
what were the things you were doing 10 years ago?
