Rewinding to Friday, October 6, 2000…

Friday · Lafayette, Louisiana, United States

Addison, you arrived on October 6, 2000 in Lafayette.

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01The weather outside

A high of 82°F in Lafayette.

82°F/ 28°C high

Low of 63°F · 0.75 in of precipitation · wind up to 19 mph

The sun rose at 7:04 am and set at 6:46 pm — 11h 42m of daylight.

Daily estimates from NASA POWER on a regional grid, using local solar days. Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.

Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.

02The sky that night

A waxing gibbous watched over you.

65% lit · 8.8 days into its cycle

No bright planets were above Lafayette's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.

It was autumn in your half of the world.

The Moon was 250,885 miles away — farther than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Music”

by Madonna — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Doesn't Really Matter”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

LAFAYETTE · 2000-10-06

ITEM2000TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.93$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.92$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$2.81$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.56$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$3.32$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$5.15$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$172,900$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.33$0.78

BREAD COSTS 2.0× WHAT IT DID

US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation

05Your life in numbers

Since that day, you have lived…

0

seconds

and counting, right now

0

heartbeats

at a resting average of 80 a minute

0

breaths

give or take a few yawns

0

sunrises

1,361 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

26 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Friday's child, under Libra.

Star sign

Libra

Air sign

Chinese zodiac

Dragon

Metal Dragon

Birthstone

Opal

for your month

Birth flower

Marigold

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Friday

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