1988....that was the year I built the house I'm still living in today. My son was fresh out of architectural schooling. He designed it, I built it. It cost me a little more than $350K at the time...almost the same as it had cost for his schooling. Architectural schooling wouldn't have cost so much but I drove him to the airport, headed for Europe and noticed that he had packed his skis...that's when I realised that it was gunna be a long, costly haul.