8:07 AM
Blogging before a very long Wednesday. Today is the day for my second job and I’ll spend the day driving through a good portion of the state that I live in.
While tiring, I really do love driving. I can clear my mind and think about life for a while and it’s nice to get out of the house and do that exploring of life I was talking about yesterday.
It’s a nice thing to take a step back for a while and just relax and see life for what it is. Some times you need to just chill and realize that the things that are making you so scary lately are not that important in reality.
I remember reading a fight on a message board once. Two guys fighting over a sword in a text based on-line game. One said the other cheated him out of this great sword by delivering something else and charging him too much game money for it. The other guy countered how the first guy was a loser and should have known by the auction what he was getting. It went back and forth and back and forth until they were threatening each other with legal action or violence and the whole time I’m reading, I sat there thinking:
“Man, don’t these guys have lives?”
I mean to fight over something from an on-line game is one thing, but to carry it to the real world is another. No one cares about some obscure on-line thing. It’s not life, it’s not reality, and if you’re mad at some guy because of something done in some on-line community to the point where it dominates your life, to the point where you’re weirding out people by doing strange things, then maybe you should take a step back and get some air.
I’ve had 9 years now in on-line communities. I’ve seen it all. I’ve been stalked a few times and I’m careful about my identity and it’s one of the reasons I’m so reclusive in the TechTV community. Now, more than ever, as there are some stalkers out there who carry things too far in their obsessions. I’ve had it happen to me and I’ve seen it happen to others and I’ve been on guard for it. The really spooky ones are the ones who take parts of your life and try to mimic them or make them their own. Those are the ones you have to watch out for, especially when the patterns go on for months. Those are the ones who need serious help and probably will never realize that they need help until they carry out actions that land them in jail.
So be careful out there folks. Watch your back and protect your ID while on-line. Especially if you do a web site and are involved in a community, please take steps to protect yourself.
With that, converted 12,000 files to jpg last night and sorted most of them early this morning. New strips up by the weekend. Have a few pretty good ideas to go with it and hey, got a great surprise in the fact that our server is only half full, so I won’t have to worry about space for a while now.
— k9
PS To one of my best friends who is down. I’m sorry I couldn’t help more. I hope everything works out and I’m pulling for you. As always, I’m here if you need me for a smile. Try to keep your head up and you’ll get through this. Just remember, you’re stronger than they are.
PPS To Chellie the Okto-Fis, hey write me already! Haven’t heard from you forever.
PPS And to that mysterious best friend, hurry home, the dog house is boring without you!