Fifteenth Plus Five

Five years onward from May 19, 1999, I was still entangled in the unpleasant thought “to see it again, or to see its predecessors again, or to see anything else even somewhat comparable, might only have me at last seeing the problems ‘everyone else’ is still stuck with.” Ten years onward, it had been almost five years since I’d managed “not too late” to happen on even a few other people who weren’t stuck with anything either, but the specific day itself passed without much in the way of online access. Fifteen years onward, I finally managed to mark an anniversary of The Phantom Menace, and received a politely dissenting comment. Looking back now, though, I see I did manage to write a fair bit.
( Saying a bit more )