h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just thought I'd pop in here to say hello...I see you're quite new, let me know how you're settling in or if you're having any problems - be forewarned though, I'm not a computer !

Woo hoo, not a computer. That will take a little getting used to. I like it here, I think its great. So far I'm just cruising around checking things out. Although I think my favourite so far is the "Last Post Wins". Finally, a homeland for my strange and vaguely frightening sense of humour.

The smiley there was "geek". "Last Post Wins" is good, the "Add Four Words" thread is too! I'll add you to my friends list & I think it'll show up on your page alright. Speaking of friends, I've met some great people on here & gotten into ongoing conversations...or in the loosest sense of the word 'relationships'.

You know about <./>thepost</.> do you? It's the newspaper here...some good reading in it. Adding you to my friends list should let you find out anything I find out ok.

Wonderful, thank you.

You're quite welcome luv! How're you doing today?

Not too bad. Being battered with post electoral results here. It grows tiresome. My kids are out for the summer! Yeah! I like having them around. I live in BC and its starting to get hot, so we're going to spend lots of time at the lake. I'm calming down from some of my rants, have made a pack to only watch a little of the news for the next week.

How are you? Where are you? What's it like? I like to learn about where people live.

Well I'm sorry to disappoint you (as to the "What's it like?...where people live.", but I'm just over The Rockies in Alberta (not much huh?). So I've been inundated with those same post-electoral results. Whereabouts in BC? I'm in Edmonton...I've been 'talking' to a Global cameraman in Vancouver, clzoomer. I'll have to let him know we've got another BC resident onboard.

Well, in a way its the old country for me! I was born in Edmonton. Its really hot here right now. I'm in Oliver which is in the Okanagan. Cherries are ripe, yum yum yum. Hey, the TV says you guys are feeling even more alienated than we are. How about that! I feel alienated from feeling alienated. Of course my cat feels even more alienated. Must be all that westerly stuff or something.

Ah, great area the Okanagan! Alienated?...not too much more than I've felt since I was about 12...I'm now 48. (Well, ok technically I might not have realized it when I was 12 - then there's that whole 'teenage' thing, which is fairly major alienation in&of itself!)

Ahh, the teenage years. I spent most of mine in my bedroom listening to BTO, the village people and Devo. Talk about alienation. The bad music, the bad hormones, the general feeling of malaise. Now that's a good time!

Of course, if you want to go back a hundred years, you can ascribe to Durkheim's model of Anomie, which is basically alienation, but more tautalogical. (ow, I think I hurt myself) Maybe we're all anomic, look I made up a word! Well, I have to take my essential seperatness and go and have breakfast.

See ya

Right*sighs & tries-only partially successfully-to cast his mind back to those hardly-halcyon days...decides to get a very, very late lunch & hope that more memories come seeping back*

Yes, I definitely hurt myself, now all those memories have come flooding back and I feel a definite urge to dress in black and write bad anst ridden poetry

My washing machine
pit of despair
it eats my youth
along with my clothing
ever hungry
I feed it
my life

Well, now I have to go listen to "Jet boy jet girl" by devo

On reflection the term "hardly-halcyon" came far too easily & was So inappropriate...although from a personal standpoint the times were not without ample turbulents! I also spent a good deal of time in my bedroom listening to the radio alot of the time (stuff like The Guess Who, CCR, The Beatles, etc.) Augmented eventually by records, people like The Rolling Stones, The Who -& some blues at a friends place-...on through 10cc., xtc, some Devo, early Alice Cooper & Black Sabbath etc, etc (a rather extended adolesence, that part Was halcyon!

Had to look up tautological - http://www.hyperdictionary.com ...oh, another one that might help on here is http://www.worldtimeserver.com

Oh yes, when I finally came out of my bedroom, my family wasn't too sure who I was...Then came my perky faze. Oh I was very perky and cute and everbody's friend. I kept my secret yearnings to myself. There was a boy I really liked named Tim, but he liked a girl named Donna, so I sat there for hours and hours listening to him talk about Donna. Strangely enough, that's how my love life tends to go now...I listen to men talk to me about their ex-wives/girlfriends/signigicant other. If I'm really really lucky, I get the "I really like you as a friend, but I'm not ready to get serious" speech. I'm thinking about changing my name to "Brandy". (Boy, I didn't mean for this to come out so bitter)
whooo, take a pill.

Anyhow, during my perky faze, I wore a lot of lacy girly tops and went to bars (I never got id'd) and was very very girly, giggle giggle. I did however get to go to some really interesting alternative places with my gay friends and have a really good time!

Well, *sigh* it Did have to end eventually, didn't it? I emerged reasonably unscathed...sounds like we're in much the same boat relationship-wise - except for a few, mostly very faint (read "tentative") sparks I'm thinking it's time to pull the plug/disconnect the life-support.

I think My "perky phase" (if that's what guys call it..somehow I don't think so, but what the ) started to seriously erode 8 to 10 years ago.

Aaah yes, the tentative sparks...they keep you going for a little while and then, even they get tiring. Up, down, flying around. What is it about people our age? What is it that they want? Why do they even start talking to you if they are going to end up getting confused and confounded and then tell you it's your fault because someone hurt them ten years ago and they can't get over it?

I mean really. I met with a person today (who shall remain nameless) and he's still living with his ex-girlfriend. They broke up 3 months ago but she can't find a place to live. And so he's going to give me a call in a couple of weeks, because there is nothing going on with her, you know, but I notice that he doesn't give me his phone number. Why didn't he tell me this before? Oh gee, I wonder what than means. What happened to meeting someone, liking them, getting to know them and deciding from there. I think the eighties must have really damaged the collective consciousness, or perhaps my brain. My goodness, I am soooo crabby tonight. Well I'm going to take the kids to the Canada Day fireworks. Talk later. Sorry I'm so crabby. I have gone from my sweetness faze into my crabby faze tonight I think.

Yeah I should get going too...I totally forgot about something that I'll explain later when I've got more time. Don't worry, no need to appologize.Bye

They were very nice fireworks and they cheered me up considerably.
night

I just got in!

Meaning I'm here, can converse if you've got time.