So here we are at ten to four in the morning again and it strikes me... I have some rather good people in my life. People who perhaps deserve a little spotlight and "shout out". As this blog is primarily for myself and for looking back on, I have decided to give each important person their due time... I will get round to you all eventually but if you are planning to end our friendship and would like a mention please ask to bump yourself up the queue by asking me...
So! The year is 1999: An age of innocence and hope, not least because the spice girls have gone their separate ways, High School musical is years away and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has just been released. The Internet is still vaguely young, plenty of well known sites are not yet in existence, Msn is crude and horrible sounding and in almost every home connected is the noise of dial-up Internet; ours would need to be connected every 2 hours. On top of this we still had our ancient computer (with no digital camera, no use for music on the box and barely any programs bar the essentials), which had a hard drive size of about 1600MB.
One day, around October time, I asked my mother to fix me up a hotmail address. I use it to this day, with the 10 year-old's suggested email address and the thirty-something year-old's spelling mistake that one can only find endearing. I was let loose on the Internet in the lands of MSN chat... closed down October 14th 2003ish i believe.
This was the moment i decided to let the geekiness take over me. I started online character role playing; a very innocent affair i might add! Specifically we had a go at Harry Potter role plays with HPL's lot... There I met Rachael... Older than me by a year and a half and that's all the difference when you're 11, 12ish. We got on, we grew up and stayed chatty.
Both of us have had moments where we needed the other for support, a wide range of issues have past us by and many other melancholic things have happened that give me an elevated, sober view (see prev. post). The true fact is though, that Rachael is supporting, honest and a true blue saint to me. Not even the fact that she hails from Scotland can mar her image.
This girl has visited me in England, with her first words to me being "I'm all soggy" as rain proceeded to slosh down. The whole time was quite pleasant affair and I'm determined to see her in Edinburgh soon, No doubt in the 2009 that is slowly passing us by...
Now her self betterment ideas truly put me to shame and she only has happiness heading her way. Truly a wonderful Lady and cat-owner (little mention of the Duke). I am privelleged to know her.
I can only assume you are reading this post as you know Rachael or wish to know more about my friends... Then again perhaps you are a stalker, in which case you can email me and I will send contact details for the good woman.
All the best to you,
Alex
So! The year is 1999: An age of innocence and hope, not least because the spice girls have gone their separate ways, High School musical is years away and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has just been released. The Internet is still vaguely young, plenty of well known sites are not yet in existence, Msn is crude and horrible sounding and in almost every home connected is the noise of dial-up Internet; ours would need to be connected every 2 hours. On top of this we still had our ancient computer (with no digital camera, no use for music on the box and barely any programs bar the essentials), which had a hard drive size of about 1600MB.
One day, around October time, I asked my mother to fix me up a hotmail address. I use it to this day, with the 10 year-old's suggested email address and the thirty-something year-old's spelling mistake that one can only find endearing. I was let loose on the Internet in the lands of MSN chat... closed down October 14th 2003ish i believe.
This was the moment i decided to let the geekiness take over me. I started online character role playing; a very innocent affair i might add! Specifically we had a go at Harry Potter role plays with HPL's lot... There I met Rachael... Older than me by a year and a half and that's all the difference when you're 11, 12ish. We got on, we grew up and stayed chatty.
Both of us have had moments where we needed the other for support, a wide range of issues have past us by and many other melancholic things have happened that give me an elevated, sober view (see prev. post). The true fact is though, that Rachael is supporting, honest and a true blue saint to me. Not even the fact that she hails from Scotland can mar her image.
This girl has visited me in England, with her first words to me being "I'm all soggy" as rain proceeded to slosh down. The whole time was quite pleasant affair and I'm determined to see her in Edinburgh soon, No doubt in the 2009 that is slowly passing us by...
Now her self betterment ideas truly put me to shame and she only has happiness heading her way. Truly a wonderful Lady and cat-owner (little mention of the Duke). I am privelleged to know her.
I can only assume you are reading this post as you know Rachael or wish to know more about my friends... Then again perhaps you are a stalker, in which case you can email me and I will send contact details for the good woman.
All the best to you,
Alex
I can't really think of anything that responds properly to this...so, I leave you with this
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Liking the blog so far lol - not sure how I'd describe it except it seems very you. Great idea about talking about all your friends by the way: I fully expect a blog entry on me to appear some time soon!!!
ReplyDeleteWell well well, when I said I would read all your blog posts and comment on each I never anticipated I would have to comment on a post about someone I do not know. So really this is just an utterly useless post, but to be eco-friendly it is being displayed entirely in recycled photons!
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