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Oct. 4th, 2004 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisSo, I'm catching up on all my LJ friends this morning when I get to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drolma's lastest entry entitled "maybe everyone is separated by six degrees from susan dennis?" Ha! I love it.
It all stems from the short and very eventful life - so far - of Eric C. Snowdeal IV. His Dad's blog was interesting before but ever since this tiny baby was born last July - way ahead of his planned October birthday, the blog has been daily updates on his progress. I check in every morning and mentioned it a while back. Turns out thatdrolma and at least one other person (annonymous) now has Eric-itis as well (they discussed me in the comment section!). Karen, my officemate, usually asks when she gets in 'so how's the baby today?' She says that my addiction reveals 'the softer side of susan dennis' (For years Sears department store ran an ad on our TV begging us to check out the 'softer side of Sears'.)
On 60 Minutes last night they talked about the new generation - the one after the baby boomers - they had a room full of 20 somethings and asked them about their use of the internet as opposed to their use of TV. They all pretty much agreed that the internet was more interesting and more fun and more worth their time. It's pretty easy to see why.
When I was 20 something, I would have never imagined that I would start my days checking on a micropreemie in Michigan, much less shared this interest with a 'friend' from Iceland. I'm glad I'm not part of the next generation but I'm as glad or more so that I'm able to get to play in their sandbox.
drolma's lastest entry entitled "maybe everyone is separated by six degrees from susan dennis?" Ha! I love it. It all stems from the short and very eventful life - so far - of Eric C. Snowdeal IV. His Dad's blog was interesting before but ever since this tiny baby was born last July - way ahead of his planned October birthday, the blog has been daily updates on his progress. I check in every morning and mentioned it a while back. Turns out that
drolma and at least one other person (annonymous) now has Eric-itis as well (they discussed me in the comment section!). Karen, my officemate, usually asks when she gets in 'so how's the baby today?' She says that my addiction reveals 'the softer side of susan dennis' (For years Sears department store ran an ad on our TV begging us to check out the 'softer side of Sears'.)On 60 Minutes last night they talked about the new generation - the one after the baby boomers - they had a room full of 20 somethings and asked them about their use of the internet as opposed to their use of TV. They all pretty much agreed that the internet was more interesting and more fun and more worth their time. It's pretty easy to see why.
When I was 20 something, I would have never imagined that I would start my days checking on a micropreemie in Michigan, much less shared this interest with a 'friend' from Iceland. I'm glad I'm not part of the next generation but I'm as glad or more so that I'm able to get to play in their sandbox.
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Date: 2004-10-04 09:47 am (UTC)I love that, "the softer side of Susandennis."
I remember those Sears commercials well.
And yes, who would have ever thought any of us would be in almost daily internet contact almost daily with virtual strangers?
I don't know how it all started, really....but I'm certainly grateful for it!
Btw, I never tire of the Mom stories. I would be disappointed if you didn't share the moving and assisted
living, and hospital details. For me, its familiar terrority. ;)
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Date: 2004-10-04 05:59 pm (UTC)The Internet has become such an integral part of everyday life for me, that I find it just weird to think that my online experience only really started less than 4 years ago - for the longest time we only had one machine at work with an Internet access, and use of it wasn't exactly encouraged. I always found the dial-up so irritatingly slow at home that I didn't get into it seriously here until I got the ADSL modem last year.