{"id":77,"date":"2000-01-01T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/01\/01\/hello_millenium\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:53:12","slug":"hello_millenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/01\/01\/hello_millenium\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Millenium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Well, that\u2019s it.<\/strong> since no one really cares about the nerdy truth that the new M-word actually starts next year, last night basically was it. Which is fine by me.<\/p>\n<p>I actually enjoyed myself this year, believe it or not. I NEVER enjoy New Year\u2019s Eve. Last year was a looming disaster in Boston, the year before was a massive allergy attack in Brazil. I could go on and on. Last night was awesome, until my delight was squelched by my companions for the evening. Just as I was reveling in the fact that I was enjoying myself trememdously at this totally swank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhythmlove.com\">DJ event<\/a> in a loft in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billburg.com\">Williamsburg<\/a>, I turned around and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/glamateur\">Jim<\/a> told me that my friend Vincent and his two friends wanted to leave. Oh well, at least I got to hear and excellent segue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.led-zeppelin.com\">Led Zeppelin<\/a>\u2019s \u201cKashmir\u201d into Rob Base before I left. We wound up back at my place with me grumpy, Jim sleepy, and the boys chatty. Oh well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, though, I must say that this holiday season went of without a hitch, once all the school nonsense was over. Christmas was lovely and warm and fuzzy, the week after was a great time to catch up and see a bunch of friends and relax around the house, I\u2019m entertaining a few houseguests for the weekend now, and I met cool people from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirteen.org\">Thirteen<\/a> who I\u2019d never spoken to before when I went to meet Adam for lunch on my unexpected day off from work. Much better than last year&#8217;s total train wreck of a holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>I was actually musing yesterday about how different life is from this point last year. I can do that a lot, actually, since I\u2019m so fickle about apartments and jobs. But last year to this was quite a leap. I\u2019m a little lonely now, but otherwise things are OK, and at least I\u2019ve learned from one of the biggest mistakes I ever made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that\u2019s it. since no one really cares about the nerdy truth that the new M-word actually starts next year, last night basically was it. Which is fine by me. I actually enjoyed myself this year, believe it or not. I NEVER enjoy New Year\u2019s Eve. Last year was a looming disaster in Boston, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/01\/01\/hello_millenium\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hello, Millenium&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71433,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/71433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}