ten years ago

[rone]

Sometime during the final week of February 1996, i got up from my tech support pod desk, caffeinated to the gills and stressed to the eyeballs.  I picked up Opie, my aluminum baseball bat, familiar, and totem, and i started walking around the halls of Best Internet, twirling my bat and gibbering.  I walked past the office manager's desk, which was outside the CEO's office, and genially said, "Hi!"  She divined that the CEO might not want a drug-crazed, armed maniac walking around his office, so she got up and steered me away.  She distracted me with a compliment, which so pleased me that i asked her out on a date.  She accepted, and that night, i kissed her and later got into her pants.

It's easy to say that it's all gone by in a blink, but i think it's as wrong as saying that the relationship has been easy.  Relationships are hard work, and saying that your relationship is easy is selling short your effort and your partner's effort.  Ten years didn't blink by; they've been lovingly spent, a day at a time.  It hasn't all been great, but it damn near has, and that's the best feeling in the world.

Love you, baby.  Here's to the next ten.

Comments

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to both of you. Here's to ten more.

[xtingu]

I am entirely sincere when I say that you guys inspire me. You give me hope that it is really possible.

Happy Anniversary, and here's to many, many more.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Ah, nothing like a good mix of sex and violence in the workplace. Happy Anniversary!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

[insert "sexual harassment training" joke here]

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

Aw.

Congratulations!

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

SCHMOOPY

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Y'all rock.

[stoat.livejournal.com]

awwwwwwwwww. congrats!

[2wanda.livejournal.com]

And you are still getting into my pants on a regular basis. How about that.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Aww yeah.

[sandollar17.livejournal.com]

EW! Gross!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You see, Sandy, when a man and a woman love each other very much...

[2wanda.livejournal.com]

See what you did?! You traumatized my niece.

[captain-nesky.livejournal.com]

Um...I agree with Sandy...it's pretty icky to actually hear about it. But don't worry Sandy is definitely NOT traumatized.

[2wanda.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's so icky. Because I'm so disgusting and gross. I get it.

[sandollar17.livejournal.com]

NO, it's not you. It's Ron.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

:((

[sandollar17.livejournal.com]

LOL...

[pobig.livejournal.com]

Hey, happy anniversary to you both!

[(Anonymous)]

> and that night, i kissed her and later got into her pants.

OMGWTFBBQLOL!!!!!1!!1

Thib ;-)

[talus21.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. I wish you many more happy years in the future.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

"I'm a drug-crazed psychopath with a baseball bat. You're a calming influence. Wanna date?"

Congrats to both of you. I hope the next ten are just as much fun.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

ITYM He's a drug-crazed psychopath with a baseball bat. She's a calming influence. Together, they fight crime

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Together, they fight crime

Is that what they call it these days? ;)

[nilasae.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Here's to many many more!

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

Aw. Congratulations to you both! Your written tribute to your marriage may be the best I've ever read.

[bramsmits.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, and here's to many more!

[sabinablue.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary. Here's to many more years of getting into each other's pants.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Talk about a cute meet. Congratulations to both of you.

[iayork.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the pants-getting-into.

Also the marriage thing.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Sweet. Continue to rock.

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

There's no one so romantic as an Echeverri boy.

[catbear.livejournal.com]

hee hee! go you two!

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

Here's where we high five.

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, sounds like a story I could tell, except it was 16 years ago and it was SWMBO who laid waste to that workplace. Love is a wonderful thing though, both in and out of pants. Congratulations, and all the best on your next bunch of years.

[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary to you, your lovely lady, and your weapon of choice. Take that however you like.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

This post rocks. You guys rock.

Rock on with your bad selves.

[(Anonymous)]

Well done, sir!

[omarius.livejournal.com]

My best congratulations to both of you!

I was there...

[lammah.livejournal.com]

I didn't rone was crazed enough to actually name his hardware...

I interviewed him the year before this incident for a support-type gig, where we initially passed on him because (get this) we judged that he was "too bitter". Haha, we were sooo naive back then...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Your very words were that i "knew too much UNIX and not enough Windows." I remember them well.

[bungo.livejournal.com]

Qool.

[zoutke.livejournal.com]

very belated happy annivesary!
(BTW that's nice way to meet)