Okay, so I’m kinda having one of those moments where I feel particularly alone. I was on the phone with a friend talking, and drinking a bit. We had a fun conversation, but now I’m left with knowing that’s the last good conversation tonight. Everyone I could talk to is otherwise engaged right now. I need to know more people.

Yes, I’m still digging through the discs. I just found an old archive of e-mails. Here’s a choice selection:

—–Original Message—–
From: Me
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 4:34 PM
To: A friend
Subject:

i’m bored… let’s kill everyone in the office using a hammer, and then go see a movie
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Man I miss that job.

If anyone asks me what my favorite band is, I’m usually at a loss to tell them. A better question to ask is, “what bands do you always buy new releases from, without having heard any samples from the album” – which is a wordy question, I’ve been sitting here staring at this question, wanting to cut it down, but I can’t… so there. Anyway, one of the bands that fits into that category is Poster Children from Champaign-Urbana, IL. There’s a point to all this, I swear, I’m just wordy today. Anyway, so the Poster Children do this semi-regular Internet Radio show from their basement. I listen in occasionally, and one evening a while back they were talking about optical storage, and why it’s not a good format for archiving because of the high failure rate of the media over time. Yes, the Poster Children are geeks (two of them were computer programmers before starting the band), but they got me thinking about the need to reorganize and reburn a lot of my archived data. So, I’m sitting here going thru “Lance’s Big Ol’ Binder O’ Discs” and I’m finding the most interesting stuff. Apparently I’ve kept a lot, if not all, of my work from about ’97 on CDRs. I’ve only gone thru one disc so far, and I’ve already found all these chat transcripts that I worked on like six years ago. It’s totally fascinating reading all this stuff I wrote, and kept records on. I even found these job evaluations I did for people that reported to me, that I had totally forgotten about. I also found these event summaries that I’d churn out following online chats we’d do with celebrities. The copy is actually a lot funnier than I’d remembered. Apparently I’d just sit at my desk and rip on the celebrities and the kids in the contests, and then send out these summaries to the whole department. It’s kind of weird now to read about what I did then. They’re like little mini-diaries of a day at work, but all centered around the chats. Weird stuff. I can’t wait to see what else I find.

PIX OF THE DAY: Other nostalgia hanging on my board at home.
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