gwax's rumblings

Back in late 2002, there was a great Internet phe­nom­e­non known to many as the Star Wars kid. As some of you may recall, I was one of the first peo­ple on the Internet to find the Star Wars kid video; I decided to host the video on my web server, ozone-beast at that time – God rest that won­der­ful ozone spew­ing hulk of a com­pu­tro­n­ium – and sent an e-mail out to random-hall-talk announc­ing its pres­ences. Within a few days, ozone beast was being del­uged with hits from all over the world. I also hap­pened to receive an IM cor­re­spon­dence from a girl in Bakersfield, CA. Being a sopho­more at the time and hav­ing way too much free time, I struck up a cor­re­spon­dence. McKenzie and I have since main­tained an Internet friend­ship with­out ever hav­ing met in person.

After mov­ing to the Bay Area, I had been plan­ning to drive down California a bunch, meet Kenzie, visit peo­ple in LA and do the whole SoCal thing but then, as you may recall, I ceased to have a car. This week, how­ever, Kenzie was in Monterey with her boyfriend, who had busi­ness; Monterey being rea­son­ably close by California stan­dards, I grabbed a zip­car, ditched out of work early and drove down to say hi. We went to the Monterey Aquarium, which is fan­tas­tic by the way, hung out for a few hours and had a gen­er­ally good time.

It’s a rather inter­est­ing thing to meet in per­son some­one that you’ve got­ten to know through other means. The meet­ing and the hang out were sur­pris­ingly not awk­ward, though I’ve always felt that the best way to avoid awk­ward­ness is to just not act awk­ward. Sure it was a lot of dri­ving but it was very nice dri­ving, the Monterey Aquarium really is great and it is really great to finally meet some­one that you’ve known for over five years.

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