Seasons

No, I'm not.

Kirby get Trillian,NULL, It's all the chat programs rolled into one.. www.trillian.cc or www.ceruleanstudios.com

That's what I've got. It's useful if you have tons of friends on various chat programs and tend to forget to run them. It's annoying cuz some features don't work right (most notably aim group chats) but they might eventually fix those problems.

It's still only in beta

So is ICQ, technically. It's existed for more years than we've had the internet, and it's still in beta. Of course they ruined it with all those ads, but it was singularly laggy even before. Used to crash our old comp all the time, but then you could fart and crash our old comp. (It was a relic with a 200MB hard drive and 12 megs of RAM. I think it had a whole 33mhz processor. )

I had trillian for a while, but then one day it stopped loading right. I've reinstalled and reinstalled, but it keeps performing an illegal operation(perhaps statutory rape).

I got trillian again, and it seems to be working... My name is STRMKirby in pretty much all messengers.

By the way, now that I have trillian, I resurrected my old, much better AIM name, STRMKirby. So I have two AIM accounts: llilliill and STRMKirby.

Well, now I'm gonna scare ya. I think I've finally decided what I wanna do with my life, or at least part of it.

I think it'd be really fun to have ppl send me manuscripts to critique. I could get another email address from my ex and be able to have em send me stories of any length, and insert my comments on em in another color and stuff. I could also have em mail me *gasp* actual hardcopy too, but I think I'd prefer doing it on the comp cuz then I could sit here doing some of the same stuff I'm used to doing, and besides then the comp and internet and such would be deductible. Of course I'd hafta get a PO box and figure out how to deal with taxes and all that crap, but that's a small price to pay for doing something I wanna do that'd also make me money. I mean, there's not very many independent critiquing services, and the cheapest one we found charges $2.50 a page. Take a 300 page novel and that's $750 just for reading and giving someone a piece of my mind, 2 of the things I like doing the best.

Of course there's still a lotta stuff to work out, but I just thought you'd enjoy the shock of me finally deciding not to be a bum.

I analyze what is good and what isn't good in many things, so I'd make a pretty good critic for a variety of things, but I don't want to. I'd rather be a writer or a comedian.

Being a comedian would be easy. Just get my family up on a stage somewhere, give us some coffee, and just let us jabber.

That sounds like an excellent profession, Onyx. Hell of a lot better than waiting tables, and makes a better use of my English degree.

If you find an overabundance of budding novelists with $750 burning a hole in their pocket, send a few over to me.