Nov. 2, 1980

Important document found in a musty stack of papers at my grandparents' house earlier this year:

If this hadn't resurfaced, humanity might never know what happened on that fateful day. That I could use a semicolon properly at age 7 yet fail to correctly parse the number "500,000" prophecies a decade of futile attempts to raise my math grades.

Comments

[Roger]

What's with the gap between "10" and "weeks?" They had to threaten their contractor with a more aggressive ship date?

[Matt Alt]

That part was "redacted" by the US Government, I suspect.

[hillsy]

I think what's more impressive is your use of "computers" at age 7. I'm glad they were the non-stealing, non-setting fires space invaders, though.

[Ryan]

I think they call this a "treatment" in the industry ...