I wrote a post earlier
about how I've been moving blog entries from place to place, site to
site for years now. I've settled, for the time being, on Blogger. Mostly
due to photos. But I digress.
As I was going through the posts
from 2003, I got very involved with reading them. But more than that, I
was trying to recapture my feelings from the time.
How it felt
sitting at the family PC from 1whatever am when I got home from work
until about 4:45am when I heard people starting to get up. That was
usually my time to go to bed. I haven't come across anything yet
talking about the inordinate amounts of time I spent messing around in
an IRC chat room created by fans of a webcomic that I was enjoying at
the time. Because none of that happened yet.
A
couple of days ago I put up a post about a camera in this space. Partly
becasue I wanted the mood/music/location stuff for the blogger post,
partly because, well, you know. Nostalgia.
Well nostalgia came
and hit me pretty hard. I keep forgetting that LJ now has achievements?
Because why not! A notification hit me really hard:
I'm
not going to lie, I was shaken. More so when I clicked on it and
discovered that this particular blog is going to be twenty-two on
Wednesday. Come November, it will be twenty-two years since the last
update.
I was googling myself earlier, wondering whether or not
any of my blogs showed up (not if my name is properly formatted!), and I
discovered one of the places that I do still show up. Which led me to
here.
I read through the comments. I cried. It took me a while to
get my head back to gether, and I decided that I needed to at least
visit my old stomping grounds. I stopped by and visited an old friend,
even if she doesn't know I'm still checking in on her. Sometimes that is
the part that hurts the most.
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