...and time passes on


I was reading some of the posts from today and days past. Also, i have been reading the old posts from months and months back, as part of a project. I realize something. Well, not so much as realizing something, as deciding to say something about it now.

We all change. Whether we admit to it or not, we all do. Sometimes in small ways, sometimes in large ways.

That was the first thing. Here is the second thing.

I am currently under the impression that our blogger associations are different, sometimes only slightly so, from our day to day associations in "real" life. We also use this as a forum for bitching, moaning, clearing our heads. In a sense, this place is a mental garbage dump, and at the same time a gathering site.

This place is like our digital sharis. (I hate using the word digital, but its late and right now i can't think of a better term. I half expect james to come up with one, and edit it into this post. *Remember to use brackets james.)

I find all this interesting because more and more i find myself as an observer of human behavior. It is like a puzzle to me. Maybe i shouldn't treat it as so, but that's how i currently see it. When i was younger, i always enjoyed puzzles, and always enjoyed trying to figure them out. (I'm not talking jigsaw puzzles either.) Human behavior is quite an interesting little puzzle. It's a puzzle i never expect to solve.

That's another thing. Everyone always thinks that they've figured out the puzzle. No one will ever completely will. There will always be exceptions. I like that. It makes things interesting.

I enjoy watching the way that slugs change. Months ago we didn't have slugs (thanks james) like DS, dead MAN, or Bonnie. Now we do. Likewise, old slugs (hehe...james and his trends) don't post as much, or have left entirely: . soma., Natalie Natalie, DrJekyll Hyde, red herring. Even myself, i have lacked posting lately. (Then again, i am using a 28.8 kbps modem right now until i get back to the dorms in three days.)

Even the material posted has changed. It seemed like it was just a place of random thoughts, then a place for bitching about things, sometimes a place for heated debate (jimmy vs bradbury, jimmy vs rachelle, jimmy vs ...just about everybody at one point), and then sometimes a place for odd creations ("Say it with Jeff!", "Super Jimmoi Number One!", "Jamson's Guybop").

Anyway, i just felt like mentioning that, because after reading the posts, that glaringly obvious observation seemed to be even more glaringly obvious. For Reals.

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