10-20-30-40 Years Ago This Month

January 2000

The halfway point in my voluntary seven-month period of unemployment. Loving my wonderful Baringer Manor apartment in the Cherokee Triangle area of Louisville. Rang in the New Year / New Century (technically one year early) with a flu blug which kept me confined to bed for three weeks -- this and unemployment allowed me to miss all the Y2K madness.

Enjoyed a solo trip to Orlando, by car for the first time, which gave me the chance to do a proper tour of Atlanta on the way there and Savannah on the way back.

Nephew Seth Rayne Carpenter was born.

January 1990

Having recently relocated from Champaign to Newburgh and temporarily living with my parents, moved to my own studio apartment in Evansville to be closer to my job at Research Systems Corporation. I knew I wouldn't be working there very long because of the low pay, but it was fun while it lasted and it gave me a couple of new lifelong friends.

January 1980

Chillin' with family in Fairfield, as a freshman at FCHS.

January 1970

Chillin' with family in Grayville, hanging out with neighbor and best friend Bobby Taylor.