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1:43am Saturday 1 January 1900

We went; we saw; we yawned.

Wende and I do agree one thing was cool: the last minute of the fireworks display was pretty impressive.

(The Power Of Houston celebration was WAY better! 30 minutes of fireworks instead of 10, and it featured a close F-18 flyby.)

Lots of cars slowly driving; honking; people yelling. Maybe it's like Terminator II: too much hype for not that great of a movie.

I'm still excited to be able to say, "well that's how we did it in the 1900s, but that's not how we do it now!" Or "I remember back in the 1900s..."

And I'm excited to write this first journal entry with the new 4 digits!

With Love

• Rob

fun

2:02am Saturday 1 January 2000

I take it back; there was actually one pretty cool thing for me: retrieving balloons out of the Hyatt Regency.

According to last year's paper, the Hyatt released 50,000 balloons from its interior 30 story balcony at midnight.

About 30 minutes later, we were skating near there, and I just had to get a balloon for each of us!

I careened off the street into the horde of tuxedoed men and sparkly women waiting for cars or taxis or limos at the back exit. I smiled to the patrons, avoided eye contact with hotel employees, skated right in.

A cop was just inside the entrance, "you can't skate in here!"

"I just have to get three balloons!"

"Fine, but you can't skate in here!"

So I plopped down on the carpet, removed my skates, carried them in. I had expected to see thousands of balloons, but instead I found thousands of balloon carcasses carpeting the carpet with a rubbery layer of rubber. yeah.

A man smiled at me, "nice tux!"

Another guy was all, "how'd you get in here?" ("I skated!")

Found some balloons that had fallen on the safe side of a table and grabbed three. It was quite cumbersome to carry my skates and three inflated balloons, but I managed to get back to the door, where I plopped down to reinstall my skates.

During the process, I lost one of the balloons in a draft from the outside.. Doh! Oh well; I still had two.

Skates on, and ziinnnngg!!! I busted out into the streets and back toward Wende and Fred. Oh wait, this is the wrong direction.

I had gotten turned around a bit by having exited the other end of the car passenger zone thingie. Got my bearings back after a block, and scampered with one balloon streaming back from each hand back toward Wende and Fred.

Raced to beat a red light and almost bonked a car, but I swerved asymptotically to his velocity.

Gave Wende and Fred one balloon each and we went home.

With Love
- Rob permalink