Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Remember me?

That's the question Blogger asks as I log in. Funny, I guess, in that it works on several levels. Yes, I want it to remember my password so that in the traditional lazy geekoid way I don't have to type it in each time (and no, you can't borrow my computer until I've logged out, thanks). But I've checked that box before, yet if I go too long without posting (which is apparently some arbitrarily assigned number of days; my blog is finicky) it will forget, guilting me into typing once again the magic words that open my account: username, password. It ceases to remember because I've ceased to make my presence known. It waits patiently here slumbering cybernetically in its small virtual corner of blogland while I go about my small circle of the 3D world, living my life with whatever significance it's got only thinking of this page in passing.

But the links to the left I think of often. I visit them often, browse the archives often, though I comment less than I'd like. I browse pages I haven't made myself sit down and link yet (in much the same way I've not updated my "current reading" since... August. My "current reading" changes every 2 - 3 days, tops.).

Of course, I somehow manage to talk my head off here. (Ooh. Did I really just point that link out? Hrm. Am I lucid at the moment? Maybe I'm wagering that no one reads this page anymore... ^_^) There I feel compelled to talk about pretty much everything and a lot of nothing. Including, of course, important life lessons gleaned from commercials, my absolute lack of knowledge of anything related to pop culture and... well, my old college roommate and I interact a lot there, too, so it's psychoses on parade some days.

No real point to this post. I just got to thinking about this spot in cyberspace.

6 comments:

Matt Elliott said...

Oh, THERE you are! I was getting worried about you. Thanks for the new link. :-)

Q said...

Beware... Poking around in my LJ could lead to delusions of sanity -- yours, not mine. Anything looks sane next to the stuff I've got going on over there. ^_~

Anne-Geri' said...

I am in complete agreement....that Matt is insane.

Beverly Choate Dowdy said...

I do remember you and think of you often and hope all is well. Question? Is that YOU on the other website???

Q said...

Yes, that's my psychosis as well. Promise I'm not simply manifesting multiple personalities or anything, though. That (the LJ) is a site through which I and some friends I've known for a long time (for the most part) keep up with each other. I've been posting stuff over there almost daily for years and it tends to be pretty random -- including where in Memphis one can find an Anointed Oil Auto Repair, FYI. It's the online equivalent of the cafeteria supper table, I guess, or the dorm lobby. It started as a lot of my high school or Harding friends and kind of ballooned from there.

Serena Voss said...

Q,

I think of you often and pray that you will find a time of refreshing during this season.

Hugs!