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April 5, 2006

Fun at the OK Corral

I was on dialup for a bit so that's why there hasn't been a peep or two found 'round these parts. Dialup seems to zap whatever energy I might have for writing. It takes so damn long to post the littlest thing, so I waited until broadband was once again under my fingertips. Oh what a feeling!

A lot of things went on since we left off. I took off the afternoon of my BD and attended a gala that evening in my honor. I think it fell under the auspices of "Greatest Web Goddess Alive" or some such nonsense like that. Contrary to what some folks (ahem!) thought, I did not "only recently crawl out of my champagne glass" for two very good reasons. One, because I do not drink champagne, I don't care WHOSE wedding it is and two, I was the designated driver. So there. Couldn't you just scream! Just call me Ms. Excitement with a capital "E."

ION (in other news) ...

Zoe at My Boyfriend is a Twat, who has racked up quite a few well-deserved Web awards, rang me up from Belgium and sang "Happy Birthday" ala Marilyn Monroe (now an annual event I suppose because I find it so hysterically funny.) She also sent me truckloads of traffic to my blog, which is always a nice touch coming from someone of her Web stature. AND, in addition to that, one of her readers, a lovely woman named Elena, sent me an ego-inflating missive about the photos in my Photo Gallery.

Tazzy and Piggy in jolly old England sent me some snail mail birthday cards, which were really funny and awful at the same time. Wishing me a happy 83rd birthday, ??????? Speak for yourself! Happy Birthday today to YOU, John! :-)

There were other cards both snail and electronic and all very thoughtful and kind and wonderful to receive, so thanks to those of you who blew your sunshine my way - I really needed it and it was a great feeling to know so many nice people. Really. I'm weepy now. Sniffle. Thanks! Now that's quite enough of the birthday crapola, so I'll move on to other bits I've wanted to mention here.

For those of you who've been playing along here for at least the past couple of years, you know that I have a deep respect and somewhat twisted affection for that snarky upstater Al (formerly of Fulton Chain, now of Rapid Adjustment.) In other words, we are good buddies. Not buddies in the sense that we hang out, we don't, simply because he's upstate and I'm down state and hey, there's the bit that we've never even met, but we're pals. Anyway, imagine my surprise when I read this post over on his site:

I care what [snip] Cindy and [snip] think. They are the people who influence me. Despite never having met any of them, they are people who I respect and check in on every day. This is the marvel of self-publishing. Forget community, forget the trendy paradigm shifting flavor of the week and try your best to ignore the echoing racket of nine thousand silly babbling pundits.

Though Al was writing about a recent story in the New York Times, I found myself staring at his words. *I* influence YOU? Wonders never cease, do they. I was touched he felt that way. Wow.

The next surprise came from Dwight Silverman, the esteemed author of The Houston Chronicle's Techblog. Dwight and I have known each other since, oh, '95 or '96. I've written about him since those days when we first met. He is mentioned throughout my '95-2001 archives (one day I'll slap those archives up here) and hey, he knew me when I was a Web star. Right Dwight? Anyway, he sent me an email on April Fool's Day which I originally thought was nothing more than a goofy joke. Since I wasn't sure about the tone of the email, I decided to ask him if it was a joke or not. It wasn't a joke, he was serious. Here's what he wrote:

Just read your "I used to be cool" piece. Honey, you're still cool, mmmm-kay?

Now that I have official validation of my coolness, consider yourselves duly informed. I am STILL cool, so THERE! (wink.) :-)

And that concludes this edition of brain dust. More tk.

Cindy

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