--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2001-09-17T05:14:00' draft: false title: Thirty years war --- What do I and [the Thirty Years War](http://www.pipeline.com/~cwa/TYWHome.htm) have in common? As of today, we've both been around the same length of time. Though I doubt that, hundreds of years from now, people will write about me in the next twelve months as "The Thirty Years Eric."