In which grade 10 is a lot like grade 9...

Grade 10 was my last normal year in my life. I had good friends, good times, decent grades...

The only thing of any real note from grade 10 is that Dave started hanging out with my group of friends. A year younger than us, but still much smarter and much more mature than other guys his age. Our Three became a Four as Dave became part of the "core".

In grade 10 I was still playing piano, still figure skating, and I also volounteered at Camp X occasionally. Brewster and I were still dating long-distance.

This is also about the time I seriously started doing stuff on the internet. I'd casually putzed about in chatrooms, frogs in blenders and stick death before that, but grade 10 was an internet awakening of sorts.