A Long-Overdue Diary Entry

Dear Diary,

As you remember from my last entry, it used to seem like every time I wrote you the Leafs would lose - so I promised that I wouldn't write again until after the Leafs won the Cup. It's 35 years later (2012) and now I think that they might be losing because I stopped writing to you, so I'm going to break my promise.

This year it's the 20th anniversary of my beloved Leafs almost making the Conference finals. Those were heady days. I was 26 or 27, my first daughter had just been born and had already seen the Blue Jays win the World Series, I was just starting a promising career with IBM, and the Leafs had Doug Gilmour. It seemed like the start of a glorious time to be a Leaf fan. Now it's a lot later and I don't see much chance that the drought will be ending soon - especially because they're not even playing hockey this season (a lockout, again).

So let me change the subject and tell you about other things in my life. My eldest daughter is in third year at University, my second daughter just started her first year at my alma mater, AND I've got a third daughter who's just 3. Yes 3. No, she wasn't an accident. (Why do people always ask me that?)

I'm 47 and still quite fit. My hair might be showing some very early signs of gray around the edges, but I think I still look quite youthful. My youngest sister just turned 50 and she looks like she's in her 30's. You should remember her - she's the one I told you used to trick me into doing things for her by saying I was way better at it than she was.  Oh yeah, you know who she married? That camp counsellor I told you about (the one who used to give me wedgies and throw me around the cabin). The nightmares have stopped now and the analyst says they're probably gone for good because he's back in my life.

My other sisters are also married and happy. I've lost track of how old they are.

I'm married too. I married a girl who I met in University. She's really hot. (I won't say anything else because I think my daughters might one day read what I'm writing here.) Speaking of my daughters, they are absolutely the best and I love them each deeply and equally.

As you can see, I'm running out of stuff to tell you. I guess 35 years isn't as long as I thought it was. But there are a few more quick things I can think of telling you before I go. Remember I had that idea to build a global system of interconnected computer networks (private, public, academic, business, and government) that would serve billions of users worldwide? Well somebody else did it and called it the Internet. Also, somebody else invented deep-fried butter.

That's all diary. I'll write again soon. Thanks for listening.

David