1996

1996
Stroudsburg, PA

My age:  40- 41

School: computer classes.  I am in a rut of taking beginner classes on how to use the computer.  I took a beginner course on how to use the  Tandy Radio Shack Computer and the Apple 2E Computer and now I am taking an intro course on how to use my MAC computer.

Work Principal- Stroudsburg High School.  There were 1350 students and 120 teachers and staff.

Music- I used to go to Border's Book store on a regular basis and just listen to music.  I would do this for hours.  Mostly I listen to world music.  And I was now buying a CD a week.

Popular musicians included:

• Spice Girls 
• Mariah Carey 
• Eric Clapton 
• Blur - don't know this person
• Dalida -don't know this person
• Jamiroquai -don't know this person
• Snoop Doggy Dogg 
• Oasis 
• Madonna 
• Metallica - not my taste
• Gravity Kills -don't know this person
• Rage Against the Machine -not my taste
• 2Pac 
• The Wallflowers 
• Sheryl Crow 
• Red Hot Chili Peppers 
• The Smashing Pumpkins 
• Marilyn Manson -not my taste
• Alanis Morissette 
• Lenny Kravitz 
• Foo Fighters

Movies- I love going to the movies

• The English Patient- Best Picture
• Jerry Maguire
• Twister
• 101 Dalmatians
• The Bird Cage
• The Nutty Professor
• That Thing You Do
• The First Wives Club
• Evita
• Shine
• Emma
• The Truth About Cats and Dogs
• Secrets and Lies
• Fly Away Home
• Michael Collins
• The Preacher's Wife
• One Fine Day
• Ghost of Mississippi
• Michael
• Big Night

Books

• Angela's Ashes
• Into The Wild
• Bridget Jone's Diary
• The Tenth Insight
• The Sparrow
• The Notebook
• Divine Secrets of the YA Ya Sisters
• Under The Tuscan Sky
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Color of Water
• Silk

Travels

• I went to Chicago for St. Patrick's Day and I hung with a priest all day which is really the way to spend the day.  His presence gave us lots of advantages.
• I spent my summer weekends on Long Beach Island, NJ.
• I went to Spain to visit my sister and her family in March and then again in December.

News events

• Prince Charles and Princess Dian got divorced and the world cheered for Diana.
• Mad Cow Disease struck England and thier tourist business shut down immediately.
• The Stock Market hit the 6000 mark and everyone was stunned that it ever reached this high mark.
• Thirty black churches in Mississippi were burnt to the ground in 18 months.  I was completely oblivious to this atrocity.
• The Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta, GA.  Someone left a nail bomb in a backpack which exploded and ruined the rest of the olympics for all of us.
• The DVD was released in Japan and this was the beginning of the end of the VCR and Blockbusters.
• The number of Internet host computes rose from one million to ten millions.  And I still didnt quiet understand what was email.

Family and Friends
My mother was again diagnosed with cancer.  She had cancer two years previously but her doctor didnt follow-up enough and the cancer came back with a vengeance.  I was devastated.