HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

I don't know about the rest of you but saying 2020 as a year sounds weird. Not as weird as when we changed 1999 to 2000 though.

Mrs OTR and I were discussing something similar the other day when I recalled watching some kind of horrible New Year Disco Party show to “boogie into 1980” and hosted by Eric Estrada! (Oh God, I feel old and yes, it was as bad as it sounds!) I had a moment where I realized that was 40 years ago. Then, we both had a moment of “Oh Dear God.... NOOOO” when we realized that 1990 was now 30 years ago! Geez, we were already a couple then! 

And yes, I had a bit of fun with the whole Blade Runner “December, 2019” thing. We aren’t where Syd Mead and Ridley Scott imagined us but I can’t say I’m the least bit unhappy about that. Even back in the 80s, I thought the Hong Kong-like megatropolis cyberpunk dystopian vision of what is now the present day was probably more than a bit off. And they had advanced space travel, flying cars, artificial humans and animals but no smart phones or even “dumb” cell phones! And who would imagine that in December 2019, there’d be posters for the new Star Wars movie? “All these moments lost, like tears... in rain.”