Sometimes over the course of a day, a person comes across a forgotten aspect of themselves that- upon rediscovering that aspect- tends to embarass them a little. That has happened to me today.

There’s a forum I visit called BBChatter. It’s a web forum for fans of Big Brother, a show that I watch- well, pretty much religiously every summer. It’s the reason I keep myself locked up in my apartment pretty much from early July to the end of September. Since I joined the site, I’ve been putting Wetwired in my signature there to try and drive up hits to the site.

(See, Py? I can be a good little site pimp when I need to be too.)

Anyway, my ID at the site is flandai. It’s a combination of letters from my name, and an ID I’ve used for years in email and such. Someone asked me about it at the site, and I explained about its origin. Upon doing this, though, I decided to check and see if I could find any links to pages with that in Google.

That’s when I came across this.

Okay, stop laughing.

Seriously.

The first part of that site that I don’t like too much is that it has my real name in it, something that LSU in its infinite wisdom didn’t think was necessary to keep private back in those simpler days of 1997.

Yes, 1997. That site was created when I transferred to LSU.

The second aspect of the site I’m not too keen on is that my writing on it is… well, it sucks- plain and simple. I’ve improved (at least, in my own mind) over the years, and those early attempts at both humor and wit still embarass the hell out of me. I’m not exactly claiming to be Pulitzer material now, but my writings today are a great deal better than they were back then. I will, however, note that at the least my style of writing does show its infancy in this webpage. I’m sarcastic, self-effacing and working hard to avoid any semblance of being serious.

Now, if I’m not a fan of this site then why would I show it to you, you may ask? Call it a preventative measure. If I point out how shitty things were when I first made my presence online then hopefully you’ll appreciate how far I’ve come here, instead of pointing out how shitty my writing can be on THIS site.

So, I’ll have that going for me.

Which is nice.

Out.

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