Interweb

Just for the heck of it today, I counted the amount of personal websites that I frequent. It was 25...That's right, 25 blogs/spaces/xangas/livejournals that I go to on some sort of regular basis. Why, you might ask, do I spend so much time reading people's pages online. To that I can only give a few weak answers, namely it's easier to find out what's going on than having to talk to them individually. Yes people, friends take time and effort to stay in touch with. And while I'm willing to put in the effort I just don't have the time to do it. Between work and school I really don't have to much time to spare, short of sacrificing much needed sleep that is. Don't get me wrong here though, I don't ONLY talk to these people online, it just may be that I go months between seeing them and the internet provides a convenient communications medium in the mean time. Also I should point out that I don't lurk the net trying to find these pages. I was given the address to it at some point in the past or told to go there by a mutual friend, well maybe one exception is if it's linked in a signature or profile or somesuch, but really that's an open invitation to go look at it.

I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that if it wasn't for the web I'd never know what was going on with people.

Another thing I enjoy using the net for is music...I now how over 4100 songs on my computer. That's enough music to play 24 hours a day for a week and a half without ever repeating a song. Okay I know I would never actually listen to all of them in a row like that but it does mean that I have music to listen to no matter what mood I'm in or what I feel like listening to.

But Alas now I must work...To earn money and all. I hate being driven by money.

-Matt