Congratulations!

At 11 this morning a friend of mine officially became a homeowner for the first time. Congrats, kudos, Bravo Zulu, etc, etc. Also woo hoo!

He took the day off of work to start prepping the new place for the move in. Since it takes a while to get a house up to livability I suggested using a 1980's montage song to speed up the process. There are so many great ones to choose from.

I was going to go with John Cafferty's “Hearts on Fire” but I didn't want him to get the idea that he should beat up his new house out of vengeance. He doesn't need to “Push It To the Limit” as he rises to power in the local Home Owner's Association. And he probably isn't going to need to build-the-laser/study-for-exams, ski the K-12, win the regatta, or stand up to the Cobra-Kai.

No... the only song that will do at all when you need to clean/restore a house is Bone Symphony's “One Foot in Front of the Other”.

Nice. The perfect thing to help calm you down after agreeing to owe someone sufficient money to have you whacked, like, 50 times... easily. It is also somehow creepy to sign a piece of paper with the actual year 2039 on it. I mean, 2039, for crying out loud! Two-zero-three-nine. Think about it!

For some perspective, here are some things that are scheduled to happen over the next three decades. All references from Wikipedia. Me so lazy :).

• 2010 – International Space Station completed.
• 2011 – Tesla Model S electric sedan comes out
• 2012 – Mayan calendar runs out – world ends (*sigh* Again.)
• 2015 – New Horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto
• 2016 – ITER fusion reactor begins testing
• 2017 – China lands people on the moon/JFK documents are unsealed
• 2019 – Blade Runner dystopia takes place
• 2020 – the Aral Sea is completely gone
• 2021 – attack of the Brood X cicadas / Moore's Law limit reached
• 2022 – Soylent Green false Utopia takes place (Yum!)
• 2025 – Voyagers I and II shut down forever (aww...)
• 2026 – USA's 250th birthday
• 2029 – A T-800 and a T-1000 get sent back in time to protect/kill John Connor
• 2030 – JAXA begins lunar base construction
• 2032 – John Connor assassinated (I guess the T-1000 could have just hung out a while)
• 2033 – ESA lands humans on Mars
• 2035 – Artificial intelligence predicted to be created.
• 2038 – 32-bit clocks overflow (maybe this will shut down the AI...)
• 2039 – House finally paid off.
  

Congrats again, buddy!