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Monday, June 20, 2005
Go Blog Urself - Rosie.com
Update 6/21 - Haha! Did a Google search for “go blog urself” and Google responded with “Did you mean: “go blog yourself?”
Okay, normally, I despise text messaging abbreviations. However, today I got a free mousepad from Rosie O’Donnell with “go blog urself, rosie.com” printed on it. Who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth? What a weird saying. Remind me to look up the origin of that. (an aside - I looked it up, not nearly as interesting as one would expect)
Here’s the mousepad - 
It came to my address with someone else’s name on it. Apparently there was a database problem. So, Pamela, I got your mousepad, but I’m sure you probably got someone else’s, so it evens out.
You know, I really like Rosie’s blog, but the spelling, it pains me. I’ve gone through so much effort to get all of my board kids to not use abbreviations, so it’s extra painful to run into them somewhere else - a place I want to read. One time, many moons ago, Rosie and I had a brief phone conversation (she wanted to IM on AOL, but I wanted to make sure she was who she said she was), we IM’d for about thirty minutes, straightening out some stuff that happened on the GLCF Rosie board during the first season of her show. Heh, the phone call scared the crap out of me, so I made my gf answer the phone. The IMing, not so scary. It’s a little weird to have things be so different now - she’s as out as out can be and doesn’t have her show anymore. It’s like the whole conversation became moot. Then again, most of the IMs I’ve exchanged in the past fifteen years online have probably gone that way. They all seemed important at the time, but life keeps chugging along. It’s almost 3am. I’m babbling. I should probably edit this in like ten hours. Okay, this is funny, when I was proofreading that paragraph, I realized that I’d forgotten the whole point of it. In IMs, Rosie wrote in all caps and it was hard to read. Now, I’m thinking I probably shouldn’t complain about the abbreviations.
Anyway, Rosie, thanks for the mousepad. I’d write it in your comments, but it would only get lost there amongst the zillions of other comments. Someday someone will do a search on “go blog urself” and here I’ll be. It’s pretty cool that someone would go out of their way to send out 15k mousepads. Money & blogs = fun. So, thanks again. Glad you’re out now, you seem infinitely happier. 
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I thought it was funney that you mentioned “Someday someone will do a search on “go blog urself” and here I’ll be.” because that’s exactly what I did. Anyway, I hope you have a nice day.
-Nick
on 11/03 at 08:34 PM
