Just look at the date, will you? The sound of it seems so extremely late. I mean, January 8…2007.

Geez. How the hell did we get this far? Where did all the time go?

Remember the ’90s? At this point they were a long time ago. For those of you who think of Doogie Howser as a major cultural icon, the ’90s was a time of Kool-Aid and skateboards, but for some of us, the ’90s was a time of mortgage and credit card adulthood. Some of us were adults as far back as – yikes – the 1980s. Some of us even remember life in the ’70s and ’60s. Hard to believe, I know, but the human life-span is typically longer than 23 years.

Anyway, I don’t know what to think of it all. The late date, I mean. The year 2007 seems like something out of a science fiction novel I read as a boy. I think by now we were all supposed to have jet packs, and to be communicating telepathically with our clone units on the Moon.

The Romans had an expression, Tempus fugit, or “Time flees.” They were, no doubt about it, correct.