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I suppose there is always a start and this is mine.

My favorite and only son Doug got me interested in creating a blog. I think it will take me a few tries at posting to get this thing down well. He has a sister but she does not blog; maybe she will after she sees Dadz doing the blogging.

I have an ICQ account. I picked it up in 1996 when I first went online. You can tell I have been there for a while since my ICQ number is only seven digits long.

Anyway. I was wondering why is it that so many people seem to be interested in me?

I find people adding me to their contact lists three or four times a week. Then, they never contact me again. Why is that? Yes, I know I could prevent that but doing so would involve more work for me at the end of the day and who wants more work after spending nine or so hours in the office plus three more driving to and from work? Your author certainly doesn't want or seek more work.

If you add me to your contact list, then there should be some contact. Right?

I also let my laptop noddle away in its slack time on the SETI@home project. So far, the laptop has completed over 600 searches and found nothing. Maybe those out there are searching for some one intellogent to respond to.

SPAM seems to be getting much worse for me. I know that if I ever need any medicine in a hurry that I should go to my email inbox to select the first questionable vendor that advertises the best quality medicines at the lowest prices.

Now, I am getting SPAM in foreign languages, mostly Russian and now German. I think it is German; but, since I don't speak or read German, I can't be certain. I sort of wish the spammer had included an English translation so I could read about the great opportunity I just missed out on.

I do other things and have outside interests besides working. Actually, I have one really big outside of work thing. I am a student, aren't we all at some point, working on my doctoral disseration. I am in my second faculty committee (the first one fell apart when two of the three professors left the school). The current title of my dissertation is "The Implications of Small Business Commercial Loan Credit Scoring for Comunity Banks." If that won't cure insomnia, nothing will short of a blow to the head with a blunt instrument.

Be well and stay happy.