All hail the Introvert!

Many years ago, a good friend pointed out that in our small circle of friends, it was always easy to tell when I was depressed because I go into, well, introvert mode. Well, welcome to the virtual introvert!

It's not that I don't have anything to write about, really. It's just that complaining about my life on my website seems so self-indulgent unless I can find the funny in it. The few people who do read this site don't come here to read me bitching and whining. They come for the funny. But lately, there just isn't any funny. There's just a big old towering heap of crap and life lessons and every time I try to write about it in a way that finds the inherent humor in my situation, it just turns into a vitriolic rant. I could probably turn the rant into funny, but the overall subject is just not-fit-for-public-bitching.

See? It's just not all that interesting when I bitch and moan, is it?

So I'll be back. I just have to find my funny. It's around here somewhere, probably under some socks. I'll likely find it again when it starts to smell.

Are you here wondering why this domain spammed you with porn e-mail?

Short answer? It didn't.

Some fucktard is spoofing digression.com to send out animal porn. If you received one of those e-mails and you're here to yell about it, I'm sorry - but it really didn't come from here. Take a close look at the e-mail headers to find out where it originated. Unfortunately, there's not really anything I can do about it, except gaze helplessly at an inbox full of pissed off e-mails.

What a capper to a really awful week.

Latest fascination? BBC Webcams.

Granted, it's an odd little fascination. Half of them don't work, and I generally remember to check them when I get home from the office. Around 1 AM London time. So my view is often of... London in the middle of the night. But still, they tug at me and make me wistful. 'I've been there! I saw that! I could go back any time!'

Second most popular fascination? Searching for plane tickets on Expedia.com to exotic locations. Austin to Casablanca? $900 round trip if I'm willing to leave 3 weeks from today. A mere $450 gets me to Rome and back -- while for $475, I could go catch the sites I didn't see in Paris. I'm not sure where the wanderlust comes from, but it strikes every few years -- and now that I've got a passport, traveling domestic no longer interests me.

I think perhaps I should be a travel writer when I grow up...