When the heck did 1988 become 23 years ago?

There's nothing like laying out The Long List to remind one of the passage of time. I just applied the character style to Nolacon II. I wasn't even at that Worldcon, but the memories came flooding back -- meeting Winnipeg friends at the Amtrak station in St. Paul as they passed through on their way back north. The super-spiff parrot poster that Decadent Dave and Slime gave me; it had a place of pride (above the throne) in my bathrooom for years and years and years, and always brought a smile to my face and joy to my mind, multiple times each and every day.

Then there were the convention reports in Locus. They told me everything I needed to know about Nolacon, filled as they were with reports of meals in the French Quarter. That didn't stop me from thoroughly marveling at other reports I've seen and heard through the 23 years since.

Woh - oh, what I want to know, where does the time go?