Six degrees of LJ

[jennyaxe]

Do you remember the old SixDegrees website? The one where you'd enter your name, and the names of people you know, and they'd add the people they know, and so on.

Today I started following the "friends" links of the people who commented on my first LJ post. It took way less than six jumps to find people I hadn't heard from in years. In some cases, people I've cared deeply for, and been sorry when our lives changed in ways that made us drift apart. And now I can see at least the part of their lives that they're willing to share with the world.

I used to wonder in what ways LJ could possibly be better than Usenet. Now I've found the first one.

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[jennyaxe.livejournal.com]

I still read a few usenet groups. AFP isn't one of them, though - it's simply too much traffic. I keep it in my subscribed list and do a "mark all read" every once in a while...

Things are OKish. I'm still at my old job, though the company has changed a lot during the past few years, and I'm currently working with webservers instead of mailservers. I'm still the one who answers all the others' questions about mail, though. I've still got endometriosis, I got married last year, I've got three cats and two sewing machines. I've taken up weaving and horseriding - the latter plays merry hell with the endometriosis and adhesions, but it's worth it! I shouldn't complain really - the pain is bad sometimes, but the medications mostly work and they're affordable in this country. I had a burnout episode last winter, but I'm mostly OK now - that's why I switched to working with webservers instead.

How's things with you?