What were you doing in 1998?

IN 1998 I WAS A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL...SO I WAS LOITERING AT VIDEO STORES AND WATCHING THE ASCENSION OF KOBE BEAN BRYANT.

I was 38-39 years old. Living in Honolulu, Hawaii. Enjoying the beach and the weather.
While this song was released in 1997, I associate it with 1998 as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96o9AvJO0M

I would have been 10 years old at the time, think I would have been in year 4 at Primary School (I was held back a year).

I was obsessed with Titanic and jumped on the Spice Girls bandwagon to fit in even though I secretly preferred the dance music I was hearing on the radio and I think I pretended to support Manchester United even though I’ve never really liked football/soccer at all.

Loved playing on Tomb Raider and loved watching Simpson’s which was still good and relevant.

Still wet the bed and wore nappies under my PJ's, I guess that’s something I was doing in 1998 LOL

I can’t think of anything else, I can barely remember what I was doing last week let alone what I was doing 25 years ago.

Working two jobs and in University.

Getting a BSEE at University of Florida.

Celebrating the release of the best album ever made, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; watching SG-1 and Celebrity Death match; getting into Britney Spears, Charmed, Dawson's Creek and Sex and the City; saying goodbye to Seinfeld and Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls; hating a slew of popular films of the era like Saving Private Ryan and There's Something About Mary while also loving Titanic, Mulan and a few Robin Williams flicks; hiding my mild fear of Furby toys and probably more.

1998 was a very good year for me (maybe my best year of the 1990s). I turned 29 and was 6-7 years into my job. I was single, but started dating a lady in October. We saw several movies in the theater ("There's Something About Mary"...I know another poster here didn't like it, but I loved it and think it's one of the best movies ever made; "The Waterboy"; I can't remember if we saw "Shakespeare In Love" in 1998 or 1999...that may have been 1999).

Golf-wise, I joined a golf league and that was so much fun. I played a lot of golf (for me, that is) in 1998. I also got to go to Muirfield Village for the second time with my brother (first time was 1996, second round) and watch The Memorial (also 2nd round). Fred Couples won it that year and we got to see him hit a bomb off the 10th tee with that little tiny-headed 3-wood he used to hit...but the highlight for us was watching Tiger Woods on the driving range after his round. 1998 was kind of a tough year for Tiger...he only won 1 tournament and was changing his swing while working with Butch Harmon. However, watching him hit balls on the range was something my brother and I will never forget. No one hit it like he did...they just seemed to take off like a rocket and hang in the air forever before landing. I will never forget that day.

Music-wise, I loved the music. I loved the new music that I heard, but I remember also delving into CCR's music and buying a guitar songbook of their greatest hits (John Fogerty's an interesting guitar player...he doesn't often get recognized for his playing, but he's great...not technically difficult to play, but brilliant in its simplicity and songwriting genius, although he could really rip it up at times when he wanted). I loved "Americana" by The Offspring; "Dizzy Up The Girl" by The Goo Goo Dolls; "Feeling Strangely Fine" by Semisonic; "Ooh La La" by Rod Stewart; et.al. It was a fun time to be alive.

I was in 6th and 7th grade. Nintendo 64!!!