onlineversary

Silly as it sounds, it just clicked the other day when I was talking to a long time net friend. That we’ve been friends now for 10 years and it also means its my onlineversary. Even though I got an email account in 1995, I wasn’t really into the interacting with people in chat-rooms and what not until the fall after I graduated high school.

Within the 10 years I’ve been online, there has been a lot of changes. I remember Bolt.com one of the first networking sites out there, to everyone having a site(s) on geocites, to if you weren’t hosted by someone/had your own domain you were looked down a upon. Even the battle of who’s browser is better internet explore vs netscape (at the time) now internet explore is against firefox, safari, chrome, opera etc. One thing I don’t miss is the ever so many webrings, tagboards and annoying pop ups on peoples sites.

I still think its neat that I’m still use two of my original screen names/email accounts from 1999.. They are now used mostly for my long time friends/family on chat and to collect all my junk email. All my paddlinggeek screen names have everyone else I talk to on chat.

How many screen names have you gone though before you found the perfect one?
Do you still use any of them?

Shiri | Caity | Katy | colleen | Shauna |

Summer 09 in Review

The nine weeks of summer did go by fast … well it seemed to me. But I really enjoyed this summer even if I didn’t go camping or on any fancy road trips. Here are some of my highlights of the summer:

• Got a bone bruise on my ankle early July and it STILL hurts (not sure what I did)
• Celebrated my first anniversary living in this house
• Drove to an out of town dragon boat festival with someone who is the worst backseat driver ever!
• Hosted a BBQ
• Created a dragon boat team of basically Vancouver twitters for a BC Childrens Fundraiser
• My Carbon Fiber paddle broke
• Got a new look, chopped 13 inches of hair off and got myself a new clothes and shoes
• Lost a childhood pet
• Danced six hours straight at my cousin’s wedding
• Attend my first WordCamp Fraser Valley
• Attend my first Renaissance Festival
• Hosted two themed movie nights
• Failed at my 30 day challenge of eating normal food but only having water to drink (no sugary crap ) .. Lasted 15 days
• Did not huli (flipped) when I paddled in a oc1 (1man outrigger) all summer long
• Changed PGN’s layout
• Last but not least…… H2O Geeks placed 7th overall out of 24 teams – I am very proud of these guys

How was your summer?
What did you do?

Lisa Marie | Lissy | Caity | Jonna |