Entering the Millennium!

[oldefool]

Yes, the Millennium has finally arrived! No, not the one that arrived six years ago, I'm talking about the one where I finally begin (again) making journal entries. I say again, because I actually made a start on it early last year, but it bogged down in the realization that I hadn't really conceptualized it very well. I thought I wanted to write

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[saltysea]

Welcome back, man.

Aside, I think you care more about your age difference than anyone else does. It's cool, it's your perspective, but I really think it's less important than the content of one's character. It's what you write, say and opine on that defines a person, not one's age.

I look forward to more posts from you in the future...

p.s. Mindwindow is an ass, and I resigned from that community a long time ago for those very same reasons.

[oldefool]

Thanks, salty, I really appreciate your response. (I think I must have freaked everyone else out).

Unfortunately, its my own concern with the age difference that I have to deal with. Wish I could stop looking at it with that crazy combination of eyes of 50 years ago and a mirror image of today. Maybe this is all about learning to get beyond that.

[nordic_thora]

Hey, Irv! Cool - you're on LJ! And you're now on my friends list, too. Maybe now I won't feel so neglectful about staying in touch. I've been meaning to write you, but your last e-mail has now been sitting in my inbox for a month or so. LJ provides an alternative way for us to keep up with one another. I don't know if what I usually write about in this forum will interest you or not - for example, I write a lot about Ásatrú (my spiritual path) and about belly dance, and I don't write much about simple living and freedom from wage slavery - but feel free to friend me back if you wish

[oldefool]

Wonderful to be back in touch, Thora (and this name somehow comes easier to me!). I had begun to wonder ~not so much about what happened to you, as what I might have done or written that didn't set well with you. It is the only level at which I sometimes have an indefensable paranoia . . . thinking that a lapse in someone's communication might be on account of something I did wrong. So the blessing of this LJ exchange is not ONLY in hearing from you, but in releasing me from one of my devils.

I expect that I'll be interested in anything you write about. You're a thoughtful and cogent writer, who probably makes any topic interesting. I have friended you, too, which doubles my total of 'friends' whom I actually know! I'm coming to the conclusion that most of the rest are folks who exist only in my imagination, because that's where everything I think they are resides. That's one of the web's very mixed blessings. It reminds me of (but it's worse than) the fraudulent feeling we used to get, emerging from a theater and quite in a

[nordic_thora]

I'm glad I managed to reassure you that my lapse in correspondence was for my own reasons, not due to anything you did! (Oh, and BTW, it's perfectly fine to use either of my two names, so feel free to call me Thora all the time if you prefer it

[oldefool]

"Several times I have tried to give up my online activities entirely, though I have not succeeded for long."

Part of the reason I got out of the programming world, 35 years ago, was that I became acutely conscious of this effect. At the time, I likened it to falling into a black hole, letting it become more of a reality than the one I lived in. So I've just about always been aware of the hazard. But I don't think I have sufficiently guarded against it, TODAY!

I did want to get back to you fast, on this one, because the late December time is not good for me. I hibernate for that entire week, every year, doing an annual retrospective of my whole year. So I think I must choose next week for it. Right now, the full week is open. We can either select a day/time/place in advance, or wait until we know a little more about the upcoming weather.

Irv