Years
I had a bit of a "this day in history" experience while writing a letter in the Logan airport. (I got home OK and am refraining from writing Yet Another Airport Security Commentary in my diary for the time being. If I don't stop myself, I will write something about airport security every single time I get on an airplane, which will be often). Leonard's diary does this for him automatically, and I think that's what prompted Sumana to mention that she met him a year ago.
Thanks to my own web diary, I can look up some of what I was up to a year ago. I was still working for Linuxcare, and I thought that too obvious to mention. I had just written a poem called "Tenebra Appropinquante: A Year 2000 Problem", which I still have and have still not published. (That poem, in turn, looked back at what I was doing in early January 2000, now two years ago.) I was working on a great hardware project (a 480-watt 7-segment incandescent digital display, which was used in counting down to the new year). I received some powerful electrical shocks because I worked on telephone and lighting systems with live current without wearing gloves. My arm injuries were very troubling and very different from what they are today (numbness rather than shoulder pain, for example).
You could try browsing my web diary from a year ago to see what I thought was worth sharing at that point. I hadn't begun this diary (vitanuova), so everything there is originally taken from Advogato.
