Ouch I just looked at the date on the first and only post for 20thCV.
OK this content thing is clearly a challenge for me. One thing that I considered with an idea like 20thCV was the content would try to look at both the lonely side now and the interesting parts of living through the turn of the century. While staying honest about a quiet solitary life. Still it's hard to write - so it may return to cobwebs again. If not - well it may be a little lame.
My first memory is of my mom crying next to an indoor clothes drying rack. Kennedy had been assassinated - I just remember because I had never seen my mom cry like that. Lots of friends can remember further back than five but that's it for me. I do remember within a year later loving to read and by ten getting my own copy of The Foundation Trilogy and quickly devoured it. I had joined the Science Fiction Book Club at about nine but that book at ten was really big for me.
I had an early gift for reading, science, and math - but never a knack for sports. Dad gave me chess and binary counting as well as science kits when I was young. Years later these skills would help me post high school when the computing revolution came for me. Socially awkward although I still had many nerdy good friends among the fellow geeks in middle, high school, and junior college. I could rattle off half hour Firesign Theatre and Monty Python skits by heart but flunk college English composition. Zero self discipline to study anything I wasn't interested in but voracious for subjects I did care about.
Computing gave me a career that was willing to overlook ( in the early days ) a bad educational track record and instead focused on my talent for writing code to solve any problem - I loved puzzles. A college programming prof recommended me for a job and I was off and running.
Now I was a young man with a future and while I didn't know it - I had a perfect placement to watch the change in American society and would also see changes in our worlds environment.
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