Random excerpts from my childhood journals:
9/25/88 age 12: “I’m training to be a ninja.”
10/17/88 “Jake must have an easier life than me.”
11/1/88 “I hate Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Thursday and Friday are ok.”
1988: “I heard this song called Greensleeves. It goes do do doo doo do do do do do, do do do do do, do do doo do do, doo doo do do do do do do do, do do doo, do do doo, do do do.”
Age 13: “Played chess by myself. Put myself in checkmate.”
“I wish I could live in medieval times like in Kings Quest.”
3/5/1990 [James] thinks he is careful with his slingshot when he isnt.
5/7/90 (my birthday): “James gave to me the same $10 I gave to him for his birthday, a pen, and an apple computer magazine.”
10/9/90 (reading the book ‘Dracula’): “Dracula is grossing me out.”
12/24/90 “If Santa Claus was real, he wouldve just flown over the world.”
12/31/90 “The 90s will be the toughest part of my life”
2/9/91 “I think I want to start writing my name like this “Ben $umner”.”
5/7/91 Got a birthday cake. It said “Happy Birthday Bun”