This pic was taken on the second day in our first apartment in...

This pic was taken on the second day in our first apartment in DC. We moved to the area late May 2000 and moved into an apartment about two weeks later. So this pic was basically taken exactly 15 years ago. On our first night there, we slept on a pile of clothes. The next day we got an air mattress.

I had to blow that queen-sized behemoth up myself because we only had enough money for the air mattress, not enough for the pump. Well, we apparently had enough for a case of Budweiser, too.

A couple of days later we had our second piece of furniture - a television set. I got it for “free” at RadioShack when I signed up for 5-years of MSN internet service. That was with a modem, kids.

The apartment itself was a tiny studio in NW, near Van Ness. Robin lived there for the summer before returning to BU to finish up her bachelors. That was a weird year for me - I got really into doing sit-ups while listening to Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit. Didn’t really have much else to do, only had one friend in the area (my friend Max, who I knew since grade school) and I was the youngest person at my job by about 20 years.

Eventually, Robin’s friend Gerry moved in with me for a couple of weeks, maybe even a month? I had no idea who he was, she just told me he was coming. Gerry ended up marrying us nine year’s later.

I had to move whatever possessions we owned to a one-bedroom apartment in SW a year later. I didn’t even have my driver’s license, tho, so Max and Gerry had to help. Lived there for six months before Robin and I moved to Arlington which is where we lived since.

15 years in the DC-metro area. Crazy. When we originally talked about this, we thought it would be five years, tops.

Time, man.

PS - I had hair!