Well, Hooch has been out and about for a change. On a school night and all. With a man!!

No, it isn't really that exciting. It looked nice when I typed it though. I went and saw Shrek 2 at the movies with a friend. Actually he's an online friend. We've been messengering each other for ages... at least 6 months, and so we finally decided to meet (isn't that an awkward phrase, "messengering", both to say and the slightly desparate inference that is associated with meeting people from 'the Internet'). No romance. No lust. Just some nice company. It was fun!

I've been lucky that I've made some really nice friendships from people I've stumbled across online. I love corresponding... when a friend was sailing around the South Pacific on a tall ship (I kid you not), I would write to him letters that were pages and pages and pages long. The letters would chase him from port to port and finally catch up with them. The whole crew grew to know my handwriting and it seems they all looked forward to those letters. (The fact that I was usually a little inebriated when I wrote them probably helped.) When I broke my leg last year and found myself housebound for three months, well, the Internet became my link to the outside world... saved my sanity and introduced me to some interesting people I would never have met otherwise (and to some rather unsavoury types, but that's another story). And now I've discovered blogging, which has been a great opportunity for me to start actually getting into a routine (ok, maybe not a great routine) of writing, and slowly dispelling the fear of letting people see my words. So, for me, the Internet has been a godsend.

I'm not really going anywhere with this, just some stream of consciousness ramblings. I'll take my flu medicine and take my snuffly nose and myself to bed.

Till next time.