I remember when UPS delivered several large boxes with a state of the art GATEWAY Windows 98 with a fat tube monitor, a mouse and dial up connection. My first email from an online contact was like discovering a message in a bottle at the beach, first reply from my french pen pal and junior high school love note from Jennifer slipped in my locker.
I took stock tonight. I've been banned from three shaving forums for being anti semitic, anti latino and telling off an australian. I'm a liar about my military service, education, many onetime encounters to family relations with entertainment celebrities, a communist and I don't have Jesus in my heart and need to be saved. People know how I vote. A guy doing research on Northern Ireland was shocked I knew the story behind the official I.R.A. being called stickies and then called me liar when I said I had family members in the San Patricio Brigade, Fenian uprising, I.R.A. and also claim English ancestry which negated my credibility. I asked him about Erskine Childers and he didn't have a clue. I get emails from every liberal and environmental group known to man asking for money. If it's not a goat for a sub saharan family needing milk for children it's a project to save
wolverines in British Columbia. Now my literary legacy ( I have 3 short stories published in old university literary anthologies, a rejected doctoral thesis on a pacific marine migration alternative to a bering landbridge migration recently plagiarised) over a effing apsotraphe.
I'm tired. I was never on good terms with the 20th century and hate this 21st. Conservatives hate me, liberals question my sincerity and I don't have anyone to tango with anymore. My doctors change my diet almost monthly and are elated I shed 20 pounds and asked my secret? I told them I ran out of money the last week and lived on oatmeal and smoked herrrings. They smiled and reminded me to buy organic grapefruit at $2 each and eat fresh salmon.
Society has largely fled into either reenactor sub cultures of Steampunks arguing with SCC knight errants over city park reservations or tuned out and a menace on road and sidewalk texting,tweeting and sexting.
I'm going to bed. I still have a modicum of privacy in that endeavor and little criticism on how I do it.