8/8/88

[Modem Butterfly]

On August 8, 1988, my best friend and I took a roadtrip with a couple of other chuckleheads up the coast of Oregon for no particular purpose. We got very, very stoned and visited the old Oregon Aquarium in Newport (which was a very cheesy affair, unlike the new one which opened while I was in college). We played in the sand dunes, we ate salt water taffy, we almost ran out of gas, we didn't have enough money to go to the Sea Lion Caves. It was a very full day, teen-ager wise. On our way back to Coos Bay, the mood turned quiet. Somebody said that today was 8/8/88, a day that wouldn't happen again for 100 years. We all thought that was cosmic. Someone else suggested that it would have been cool to see the Crazy 8s play, but it was a weekday so they probably weren't playing anywhere and anyway, we didn't have the money to drive up to Portland or Eugene or wherever they were playing. My friend said, "Well soon we'll all have jobs and then we'll have money, but we won't have time to just fuck around all day like this,"

I've been thinking a lot about that day today, and how, as a sixteen year-old I struggled to fill the day and how now, at 33, all I want is a couple more hours each day to finish all the shit I have to do.

:cry:

[ghostsofgiants]

1. It was my dad's thirtieth birthday

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[Taverner]

2. Ahhhh the Crazy 8's - I remember them from college

I was 18 on the day you mention...one year later and I was in Corvallis, OR and probably bopping to the Crazy 8's - doing SkaPunk long before it was big elsewhere...

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

3. It was also the day the Cubs played their first ever

night game in Wrigley Field.

[Kraklen]

4. You mean the one in the historic district?

Yeah, that is pretty cheesy.

I'd think I rather pay money for that now, though. The "new" one has dropped like a lead weight since Keiko left.

I recommend people stay away.

[Modem Butterfly]

6. Yeah, but the new one has the jelly tank, which is cool!

The original one had the cool touch tank and it was right next door to that freaky wax museum thing. Also, it was closer to Moe's.

[Kraklen]

9. If you like looking at dead jellyfish, sure.

I was there a couple of weeks ago. They had maybe a half dozen moon jellies and a few lying on the bottom.

[Modem Butterfly]

10. Well shit.

The last time I was there was 1998 or so. My family live down near Coos Bay, and when I come home we usually stay relatively close to home. It sounds like they've really gone downhill, which is a shame.

[Kraklen]

11. Yeah, I went there in 1999.

I was really impressed. I was pretty sad to see what had happened to it.

[Left Is Write]

5. It was nice, though...

being sixteen and having the time to fuck around all day. Wasn't it?

8/8/88 I was a 22-year-old single mother; have no idea what I did that particular day beyond going to work.

[Modem Butterfly]

7. Yeah, it was great

While it lasted! That day wasn't remarkable in any other way except for that one remark. I guess you could call it the first draft of the coming chill...

[Debi]

8. Princess Beatrice was born

yet another useless fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Beatrice_of_York