Fancy seeing you here
Sorry folks, I realize it’s been since Nam since I last posted and it’s not that I don’t have anything to post about, just need to be inspired near a computer. Seems like everytime I get inspired I’m staring at Tony while he’s sleeping. But thats not internet appropriate.
So let’s recap what we’ve missed, heh folks?
Linds had a birthday and God dammit was I sweet. Flowers, dinner, I juggled chainsaws like she asked me to and then golf balls to complete the day. What good date doesn’t end with balls coming out? ooo…not internet appropriate. Delete key broken, sorry.
School continued, skipped a night class to watch some whack-o UFO guy, if I hadn’t fallen completely asleep during class pre-skip I would feel worse. But I did that shake yourself awake mid-dream thing that draws attention from everyone while the drool slowly begins rolling down your chin and there’s that one long drool thing dangling from your mouth. Yeah. Needed a change of scenery.
Hmm…what else. Been playing a lot of Monopoly and then last night me, schaef ( who spilled his beer all over the board) and Linda played and even though my nickname is Mr. Boardwalk (cause I win so much) I was the first one to lose.
Hmm…what else. Oh yeah. Lan party. I went to the one in Madison and not only were there massive amounts of playing time instead of mostly installing/fixing time. But aside from that rarity I laughed real real hard twice. Once on account of listening to Brian Regan’s radio interview and the other from an incident during Battlefield Pirates. You’d have to be there.
Well, this posts inspiration came from a cleaning project. I was cleaning out my old AOL Instant Messenger lists and MSN lists and Yahoo! Messenger lists. Wow, some old friends in there.
I was reminded of the times that I would have to time chatting so it wasn’t when people would be calling the house or we’d have to go on for moments at a time because of Dial-Up.
So many screennames I haven’t seen in years. People from TEC, people from Miles’ class in high school, and just old friends that I’ve lost touch with or have outgrown the chatting world.
Such memories. I remember Miles and I trying to chat with our new friend Sarah Matz on Yahoo! until like 3AM at grandma and grandpa’s old school computer with Dirk and we finally gave up. Reminder, this was before one on one chatting, we tried meeting her in a chat room and it never happened. Then at such an hour, the three of us went for a walk in the fog. Weird how I can remember weird events like that but I can’t remember things from my notes that I just took.
I remember what Amy Spors’ color on her AIM was, I remember seeing any of the Brass girls online creating excitement. Just seeing those screennames on AOL IM was a thrill. We set up chatting times. Miles and I would be up at like 3 AM in our basement with a phone line mom confiscated a few times from us.
I remember when Mom took the phone line one late night/early early morning and goes upstairs and I look at Miles sadly. We look everywhere for the stolen cords and then Miles takes me to his room and reveals he has a backup.
I remember chatting with Brenna and Holly. Mostly Brenna. Again, great excitement when I saw her name online.
Then I remember chatting with Linds. Thats basically how I found out anything about her, being I was quite a nervous dude around her. Seeing her name online was crazy at first. What a rush, ya know. I felt a need to make her laugh. Most the time I was quite unsuccessful even beginning to trash talk about golf. I figured, she may be good, but there is no way she’s better than me, she’s a girl. Thank God I was right.
One of my favorite things is to go back in time and relive things. This is an example I haven’t really touched on before. I see a movie, hear a song, watch a cartoon, see a building, things like that have always aroused nostalgia, but never instant messengers.
Well, you guys are the first to know.
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