2002, an eventful year.

I came upon an old calendar recently, which detailed the year 2002 for my family and I.
What a busy time that was!

April 4. Vasectomy by Dr. Tapper. Dr. Richard Tapper. Dr. Dick Tapper. No lie.

May 3-5. Jason W. and I went to Indianapolis for Star Wars Celebration II. That was a great trip!

May 7. I won the Episode 2 soundtrack on CD, at an online joke site. My caption for THIS photo was the best! (Stifferus is me.) When I received it, though, there was a hole punched through the bar code! So much for “Near Mint”…

May 16. Star Wars Episode II opened. Jen and I saw Attack of the Clones at 4:30 pm that day.

May 18-21. I went to Dallas for the Medical Library Association annual meeting. Non Stop Detroit to Dallas, less than 1 year after 9/11. That was interesting. Dallas had Horses displayed throughout the city, the way Toledo did frogs that summer before. I took plenty of photos for Jackie.

June 30. Jennifer turned 30. She was more worried about 30 than when she turned 35 last year!

October 27. We had the kids’ 5th birthday party at the Northtowne Meadows community house.

November. We purchased and moved into our home at Northtowne Meadows.
In hindsight, a less than stellar decision.

December 7-12. We went to Disney World! What an awesome trip that was. Layovers in Atlanta on the way there, Cincinnati on the way back. The only issue we had was getting from the airport to the hotel when we first got there.


Hard to believe that it’s been 7 years!
Every year seems to go by a little bit faster.

And yes, I discarded the calendar.


For reference, here is a handful of world events from 2002.

January 8 - The No Child Left Behind Act is signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush.

May 30 - The final piece of debris from The World Trade Center is removed from Ground Zero.

October 2 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin with 5 shootings in Montgomery County, Maryland.

November 25 - George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security.


And for the truly geeky… according to the future history of Star Trek, the first interstellar probe, Nomad, is launched in 2002.