Terry's 3M's
I've mentioned before that I have been lax in getting online in recent weeks. While I have managed to keep most of my e-mail manageable (and manageable to me may be overwhelming to you...to me it means less than a thousand posts in my regular inbox.) I have almost totally neglected going to my zdnetmail box in almost a month.
I belong to one mailing list that has posed some interesting questions during the past month. Questions that I didn't get to answer because I wasn't reading them in a timely manner. So, maybe I'll answer a few here.
Yes, I have met people IRL that I first met online. And I've found them to be a lot like they presented themselves in a chat room or through email. I think the main thing is that honesty works. If you are honest in your dealings online, you will have a better shot at having a successful meeting in real life. Maybe it's just me, but, I find that the jokes about misrepresenting oneself online are off the mark. Or maybe I have just been lucky to find people that represent themselves fairly. I don't currently have a SO, but, John's dad knows that I have a journal online...and has shown zero interest in it. (Actually, he has zero interest in anything to do with computers.) If you know me, than chances are that you know that I have webpages. Since my journal is linked from almost every page, it would be hard NOT to find it. I am seldom at a loss for topics to write about, but, sometimes I change my mind after I've written something and deleted the entry before I've uploaded. No, my main problem with getting entries written and uploaded is time and how I am feeling. Right now it's just after 11PM and I'm tired. But, I really haven't had time to sit and write until now because I've been with the kids all day.
And now it looks as if I won't get this uploaded tonight after all. When I came downstairs and went to get on the computer, I found the screensaver was froze. Since the computer was locked up, the only thing to do was to turn it off and reboot. Unfortunately, the modem didn't disconnect itself (or rather the computer isn't reading it as disconnected) so I can't get online unless I turn off the computer for at least 5 minutes and restart it. I'm not in the mood to deal with that right now as I only had about 4 hours of sleep in the last 24 hours and I'm falling asleep at the keyboard. So, I'll just shut down for the night.
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