# Your best thought of 2000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519 "2000-12-28T16:25:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/1 "2000-12-28T16:25:42Z")
[sub]…haven’t been here for awhile, haven’t seen this question asked anywhere, but once again, if this thread already exists, please forgive me…[/sub] 2000 is almost over. Was supposed to be a landmark year for some people. Was it? For you? What was your best memory of this past year? Or what event had the biggest impact? My best memory was of my anniversary this past September 30th. To make an extremely long story short, my wife and I spent a wonderful evening with some friends in Pasadena, ending up having breakfast in a little diner at 1:00 in the morning. Good friends, and a wife I love with all my heart…and nothing could be more important to me than the love of my life. What was special for you? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/2 "2000-12-28T16:37:31Z")
Hands down, the birth of our daughter January 29th. Healthy, perfect and happy. Then there is a big trip through mundaneville until well into August when we visited two very good friends of ours in different cities. Connecting with one of the wives for the first time (after knowing her 13 years)made me realize that people do change. [sub](Maybe I changed…nah…)[/sub] Spending time with the husbands and seeing how happy it makes my husband to act like a 9 year old with his best friends, makes the 13 hour drive to their house worth while. I didn’t even mind it when he and best friend locked themselves in the basement workshop for four of the five days we were visiting to play with power tools and giggle like little girls all day long. ( next year, if we visit, they are definatly not doing that again, though. Once is enough.) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/3 "2000-12-28T16:43:06Z")
Good thread, btw. All the truly best moments in life are never captured on Kodak, but in the heart. ---
**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/4 "2000-12-28T17:00:25Z")
2000 really, REALLY sucked for me. Sorry to spoil the happy mood, but it did. I almost died a couple of times, my best friend DID die, I had to deal with being thrown out of the house I grew up in, I lost a couple of jobs and almost got arrested. Let’s see… I had to move to a communist country (away from all my friends) if I wanted to be with my remaining family (for some reason I did, not that I really like those guys anyways). Let’s not forget the fact that I was rooting for Al Gore and we all know how that went. Oh yeah, and I got robbed three times in two countries this year (Iceland and England, I lived in both of them)! Both times I lost EVERYTHING that I had and was forced to start over, barely having enough money to eat for days afterwards. Oh, and one of the times I didn’t have money to fix the broken window so I had to sleep with snow, rain and pigeons coming through my window all the DAMNED time. Eh, like I said, sorry to ruin the mood. 2000 was just a BBBAAADDD year for me if there ever was one, I’m praying for a better 2001. And to think we all had hopes for this year, just because it’s a cool number don’t make the year good… But hey, at least I now have a new computer and just applied for a university I’d like to go to. And despite what things may have looked like earlier this year, I’m a free man today and alive to boot! Things can always get worse I suppose. — G. Raven ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/5 "2000-12-28T20:40:03Z")
Best thought: “Hmmm, ‘Straight Dope’…I suppose I’ll check that out.” Worst thought: “Yeah, I’m going to move to North Carolina.” (followed 6 months later with “I’m gonna quit and either move to Cali or Ohio.” I chose Ohio. [sub]Which is good[/sub]) Sorry to hear about your crummy year, **Lament** , but you seem incredibly resilient, so that’s gotta be worth something! ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/6 "2000-12-28T20:57:00Z")
Sorry to hear about your year, **ML**. My 1999 was pretty bad, but 2000 was good. Hope the same happens for you. My highlight for 2000 – a new job that I love, getting paid more, and working with great people. Plus, like **thinksnow** , the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/7 "2000-12-28T21:01:25Z")
Right at THIS moment, hon, it is the joy of seeing that you are back! Scotti ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/8 "2000-12-28T21:02:30Z")
Best thought? “Hmm, maybe I should go to Sweden to meet **Anniz** …” ---
**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/9 "2000-12-29T08:51:17Z")
Thanks guys, things are already better during the latter half of this year, hope those last few months were just a weird coincidence 🙂 As for my best thought of the year (forgot that part before): “I guess I’ll check out this message board thing on the Straight Dope site, maybe the teeming millions have something interesting to contribute.” And boy, do you guys ever! To think that I thought I’d be out of reading material when I finished all the Cecil books! Happy New Year! (even though it doesn’t start untill late january over here). — G. Raven ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/10 "2000-12-29T11:22:36Z")
Yay! **poohpah chalupa** ’s posting! Good to see you back, hon. I’d have to say that the biggest thing for me in 2000 was finally being free to do what I wanted. I graduated from college last December, and for the first time, I have no commitments, no direction I _have_ to go in. I’m able to decide what will happen to me next. Although I know I’ll have to do something with myself soon, and although it sometimes feels like a lack of purpose rather than simply a lack of commitments, the sense of freedom I have now is great. There were a few dark times here and there, but on the whole, 2000 was a good year. Happy to hear that things are looking up for you, **Morrison’s Lament**. ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/11 "2000-12-30T01:02:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scotticher \* > **Right at THIS moment, hon, it is the joy of seeing that you are back!** _blush_ …aww, you _knew_ I couldn’t be kept down for too long…a lot of folks here sustain me. Still, what an honor to be welcomed back by **Scotti** heart herself… {{{{Scotticher}}}} …and **AudreyK** akes too… “Hi Audge!” _smoooch!_ ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-thought-of-2000/47519/12 "2000-12-30T01:14:32Z")
Well, since Morrison’s Lament already came in here and ruined this big, happy thread, I don’t have to feel “bad” about posting. This was probably the worst year of my life. January wasn’t bad, although I don’t remember most of it. February I got robbed twice and became an alcoholic (again), which tossed me in the hospital four times from drinking too much. March I was hospitalized twice from drinking too much. April my best friend in the world died which left me feeling completely alone in the world. (Which, of course, isn’t true. But she was my best friend, obviously I’m going to feel that way for a while.) Then, just recently, there was that big cancer/death scare with my mom. Anyway, I don’t remember a whole lot of the rest of the year. But it wasn’t fun, or spectacular, or even very interesting. I’m glad it’s over, but I don’t expect 2001 to be any big improvement. [/pity party]