In Twilight Regalia

I am so inexperienced with techie and web things it isn’t even remotely humourous. It’s true I’m older than the web generation, but plenty of people my age do just fine at it — I still have no website after all these years and probably never will. I try to make a bunch of reduced sized image pics for upload to a future website and get bored halfway through the process. I try to make a layout plan and end up too overwhelmed with choices and YAAAAAAAWWWWWWn oh man it’s been three hours I have to go to bed.

I decide valiantly to make a simple Friendster blog and the damn thing won’t come up with anything but a header URL. I make a stab at understanding what Typepad is, I read the help stuff; no, sorry, it’s still pretty much not giving me a clue. What’s all this jargon mean? Have I got these things? Do I need these things? What am I DOING? At least I have design friends who savvily told me the problem was not with me, but with the typical Friendster overload problem.

Oh yeah. That was why I left Friendster in the first place, I’d forgotten.

But here I am again trying to make another stab at it. Why? Self therapy? I hope not. To connect somehow with someone who’s exactly like me but perhaps lives in Ohio or some godforsaken whitewashed corner of Georgia? Probably. Blogging is becoming the new, freer, better looking, and more flexible AOL world that once was. Everyone and their dad has pics up of their vacations and their kids and their ramblings about their daily psyche.

I ask a friend what she thinks would be good topics for me to put out on my blog, since I don’t want to bog friends down with ramblings. She shows me her ramblings, and I realize she’s fine with ramblings, which was not my point. Oh well, on to the next friend’s opinion.

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