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Today is leap day, and I would be silly not to blog on the one day that comes only once every four years.

Let me see if I can remember some my personal leap day history. Walk with me, if you will, through the hallowed halls of memories:

• 4 years ago today I was just one year into my career as a self-employed freelance web designer in Indianapolis, and one month into being a parent. After one year I was probably thinking something like “This just may work.”
• 8 years ago today puts us back in the year 2000. I had only been married about six months at that point, and was probably still chucking at the massive media panic about the Y2K bug.
• 12 years ago today was… 1996. (I had a math moment there.) in 1996 I had only recently been designing my first websites at Anderson University. Let me see if I can dig one up at the Wayback Machine… ahh, here it is. I was about one year from graduation at that point. Look at that early Photoshop work…
• 16 years ago, in 1992 I was working as a fence builder in Decatur Illinois, (the armpit of the U.S.) and not loving it. It was the hardest job I ever had and I had just reached the point where I was about to quit to go to school full-time. I was the low guy on the totem pole who got to do all of the hard jobs.
• 20 years ago puts us right at 1988. I was 16 at the time and hating life. (What teenager doesn’t?) Back then, we didn’t use terms like Emo or even “teen angst.” I had an afro and wore pink t-shirts with the sleeves torn off. I remember drawing a lot in MacPaint on a Macintosh plus.
• 24 years, 1984. I was 12 years old at the time, and lived on an Indian Reservation with my parents, who were missionaries. We lived in Washing State. Computers? I had a sweet mini Casio keyboard… It had LED’s which made it the most technologically advanced thing I owned.
• 28 years ago in 1980, I remember playing with a friend’s Atari 2600. Combat was my distinct favorite, especially the level with the bouncing bullets…
• I was only four years old in 1976, 32 years ago. I remember playing in the dirt a lot… don’t laugh. What do you remember?
• To wrap it all up: on Feb 29, 1972, I was not born yet, and wouldn’t be for a few months. Not real exciting.

Ahh, memories.

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