Tuesday, November 11, 2008

On the blogosphere

I have been "blogging" or something like that for more than a decade now, which makes me an "old", I realize, but not quite an "eld", and I have come in contact with a huge number of people through the "series of tubes" (TM Sen. Convict of that Cold Scary Dark Place of Nightmares that produces Beauty Pageant Winning Wolf Hunting Governors) that I consider friends, or had considered friends...people who I had never met but knew intimate details of their lives.

I went looking the other day for one of these people who I had lost contact with...I hadn't thought of this person since...well...my life started to change in the summer of '07...I typed in her friendly address for her blog and I saw that she hadn't updated since October (or so I thought) and then I saw that the "blog" was listed as a memorial...

I rechecked the date, and it was October of '07 that she last updated.  Shortly after her last post, which was something silly, she passed away.

It was a little bit of a shock.

I am not saying that it was a crushing blow, I wasn't really a friend, nor family...none of that.  I was just a person who read about this woman's life.  Her move away from her family, and her issues and problems and joys...and now there is going to be nothing new.

Which puts all of my whining about my life and politics into perspective.

Anyway...sorry for the navel gazing...

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