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I was exhausted earlier today after a trip through town for more records, and took a hot n sweaty nap. Which means, of course, that I'm wide awake right now at 2 AM. I gave up on sleepless fog and decided that if I was going to be awake regardless, I wanted my head to be clear, so I fixed myself an irish coffee and started surfin'.

I almost feel like chatting with someone, or several someones, but dunno how anymore. Online, not in person. It's rare that I feel lonely these days, because I see people in person all the time...saw Thomas & Danny at D&D yesterday, saw Jaimie the morning before that, live in a house full of familial friends, and hung out with John and Brian before they took off for GenCon.

I don't do a lot of chatting online anymore. I haven't used IMs on a regular basis for several years. One of the reasons if that my laptop is buggy and will lock up if I stay on them for any appreciable amount of time. Another reason is that I have vague recollections of those conversations being quite bad, and worse, un-entertaining. I've been spoiled by long blog entries and sites full of constantly over-turning tidbits of useful information, like Something Awful and Encyclopedia Dramatica. Well, 'useful' may be stretching it, but it's either that or read the news, and I can only take so much of political pissing contests before my eyes glaze over.

Sometimes when I'm logging into facebook, I'll click 'online' by mistake, and some folks on my periphal will message me through the IM on there. One of them is a man named Torthoramudi, from India. I think he's a Christian missionary, because he posts a lot of inspiring religious-type stuff on his wall, and wished me a happy birthday last year with a 'God Bless You'. I'm not religious, but I thanked him for the birthday wishes. The other person who messages me is an artist named Gabe who keeps wanting to give me free music on some site he knows. Gabe keeps forgetting I'm deaf, and thus not very interested in music as opposed to visual arts.

If I wanted to go flirt for a bit with random strangers I'm not sure I'd know the proper netiquette these days for such a thing. I'm still getting used to the fact that on SG, everybody just continually posts replies on each others blogs, regardless of the blog content. I think SG has a messenger itself, but I dunno where it is. Even if I did find it, how would I be received? Am I too old to flirt with folks on here? Would my jaded opinions on pop culture fit in well with the vibrant youngsters with wide-eyes in the Lifestyles forum? Back in the day it took a good week to get a gal to send ya nudie pics, now everybodys already naked. The rules, they keep a changin'.

I'm going to drink my coffee and see if there's any new links on Fark.