June 20th 1992

16.

Hard to believe, but the teen turns 16 today. The years are racing by. To state the cliche (think of an old man saying this line or a Bill Cosby type), it seems like yesterday he was just graduating from kindergarten where he regularly gave away his good toys. He had a knack for taking his newly acquired Batman action figure with deep sea diving accessories to school, and not returning with them. It would seem that he felt other kids wanted it more then he did, so he gave it to them. I don't know if this spoke to an early sensibility of generosity, or a lack of connection to material things. Either way, i suppose it can be seen as good.

(Cosby type voice again) Yeeeeees, seems like just yesterday at the age of 6 he was asking his mother to put Nightmare on Elm Street back in the VHS for him. He had a penchant for horror flicks at a very early early age. I don't know that he still gets into them. Today it is much more about things like Ninja Warrior, and Metalocalypse. I guess that is close.

(Cosby) Well, seems like yesterday we had to shake the little tyke a good four times to get him out of bed to leave in time for school. Today, its just a mere 5 or 6. I am sure that is something that has not changed. He does enjoy his sleep. Probably because he has always found a way to stay up late. When he was small, he enjoyed his small flashlights that he would use to assist reading or playing so that we wouldn't know he was up. Today his room is far enough away, that it is hard to say what and for how long he does things at night. Maybe he is engineering the next version of the Internet and is going to amaze all around him. We will see.

Even with all the turns , ups, and downs we have shared with our teen, we love him very much, and are very proud of who he has become. Here's to knocking out the rest of the awkward teen years and becoming a great individual... who becomes rich for re engineering the Internet-Ollernet. We wish him a wonderful and Happy Birthday.

16, wow...