2:19 PM
It’s the Monday after and it feels weird. So sharing random thoughts before I go back to work …
Techlive came on at it’s normal time at 9 am and went for about an hour and a half. Erica Hill hosted mainly a collection of pre-taped segments from the old chat desk instead of the news desk. There were reviews of the Gamecube by Adam & Ray and an interview with Jack Myers. So That’s 4 people for sure that we know of who are still there. The annoying ticker was still there, but you know, it could have been pre-taped because it felt so cold and robotic that I don’t know if I’ll watch it again.
Techlive ended and … reruns began. Old Silicon Spin followed by old Screen Savers followed by reruns of nearly everything else so far. I thought it was ironic that Scott Herriott’s site of the night in the repeated “screen savers” was a site on famous last words, but of course, there’s no irony in this life.
Today feels like a holiday, like all of the people we knew and cared about from Techlive are off having fun with their families and friends and that they’d be back tomorrow.
But then the memory hits, oh yah, that’s total BS, they’re all gone.
I guess I got into the habit of having TechLive on all day while I was working. Let’s face it, there’s not a lot of other options out there and it was fun to be able to pop into the chat room and get my name on the air from time to time. RIP Bud in Texas. Can’t do that any more. I don’t even know if there are chats in the day any more. No one put up anything on the site to indicate anything about them. I know that Robyn Huggiebear survived the purge, but from what I’m reading on Leoville, everyone other than Annjanette didn’t and that sucks.
I’m not going to eulogize them. I will say that I feel bad that circumstance had me end my participation in the afternoon chats after the initial purging of the afternoon team. I can second guess my decision, but I made a statement and a promise on my own and I stood by it. That purge hurt, but nothing like this … this was an elimination and well … damn, I have to find a life now during the day.
Spent the day shuffling furniture between my computer room and my bedroom. Work was slow today, there’s no more techlive, so I had some time to kill. Moved my second computer desk from in front of my windows in the computer room to the right side of the room right next to this desk. Cleared it off of crap and now I have a place to use my laptop or eat dinner. I had been making space on this desk to eat.
Moved my old hutch from my bedroom to the computer room. My stereo is in it. I thought I’d be spending more and more time in my bedroom after the kids moved out. But it turned out I hardly ever used the stereo in there since I’m only in there to sleep. So moving it was a pain but I got the job done. Right now I’m thinking about getting out of this chair and moving the drawers from it in here. I forgot to do that earlier.
I’m in a total daze and fading. So with that, be safe, take care, and hang in there.
k9