last night i couldn’t take it. i knew a— was downstairs watching television and eating something that probably contained some form of sucrose, while above me in his room i could hear the fan he kept on at night buzzing against his hardwood floor, aka my ceiling. it was 2 in the morning. it’s not particularly hot in our house especially considering that it’s winter, but a— keeps a fan on so that he can fall asleep easier. i suppose having white noise in the background can help some people go to sleep with more ease, but i personally prefer silence; dead silence if i can help it.<\/p>\n
anyhow, we had been bantering back and forth for a few months now (it was more like i’d subtly let him know that his fan would keep me up) but recently i had kind of let the issue fall by the wayside. but like i said, i couldn’t take it anymore – i rushed downstairs and pulled him up to my room and said “shhh… listen”.<\/p>\n
he looked at me and mumbled, “well, it sounds a lot different from down here than it does upstairs.”<\/p>\n
today was lazy. i woke up later than i really wanted to, but i didn’t think anyone would mind. most of my work was done and i had only a few minor maintenance things to deal with, so i spent a lot of the day receiving birthday greetings, surfing the net and working on my various design stuff.<\/p>\n
i was going through a lot of the old bookmark files that i had been collecting for the past 7+ years and found that maybe around 80% of the websites i had were dead. a few had moved around which i found pretty neat: where there once was a geocities or xoom now stood a .com, .net or .org. a lot of the “fad” domains were missing too like .nu and the such, which is just a well since i secretly found them annoying. not that there was anything wrong with .nu domains especially since bookmarks solved that kind of issue for me but there was always something unsettling with a 2 letter domain suffix as opposed to a 3 letter one.<\/p>\n
the coolest thing was seeing how some people had really progressed and grew with the web – to see that their talents had expanded and flourished was something that really got me excited. it was awesome to click a link that i had a very vague recollection of and then be suddenly surprised by something i totally didn’t expect that blew my socks off.<\/p>\n
amidst all the surfing i tried looking for other people with websites that shared the same birthday as me (i thought hey, why not wish a complete stranger a happy birthday too!), but i didn’t have much luck. i found a lot of people that were close and quite a few february babies and even a few birthday greetings for today were mentioned on various blogs\/journals, but in the end no dice – couldn’t find one february 5 birthday among all the cybersouls out there. maybe i wasn’t looking hard enough, but after an hour i decided that i had dedicated enough time to such a silly effort.<\/p>\n
anyhow if you know anyone out there tell me and i’ll give them a “hello” and “congrats!”.<\/p>\n
cell phone calls answered:<\/b> 6<\/p>\n
cell phone calls missed:<\/b> 5<\/p>\n
client calls received:<\/b> 0<\/p>\n
juicy sites re-found:<\/b> deaddreamer<\/a>, geekbee<\/a>, dazed<\/a>, suction<\/a>, velvetsky<\/a>, anaphase<\/a>.<\/p>\n