This wasn't something I was originally going to post here - but one of the other usual forums I post on is suffering technical difficulties just now, so I was left with a block of text and nowhere to put it.  Given the nature of said text, it needs to go somewhere.

Calling myself an artist is a bit of a stretch...I can draw passably if I really put my mind to it, once every ten years...Acquaintance though didn't feel right.

There's a thread over on the Lada UK forums titled "Today I Mostly..." which has now stretched to 217 pages and gives a somewhat amusing insight into the day to day chaos of the members there...it's a bit like reality TV but in fast forward and more entertaining or at times thought provoking.

This was going to be my entry for there this evening.

Today I mostly...went about my usual evening routine, cleared out some email because it appeared that email mitosis had been occurring in my inbox over the last few weeks again, uploaded a few things to Flickr, fiddled around with the httpd.conf file on the server for a bit, then my productivity came to an abrupt grinding halt when I was informed by a friend that someone I know via an art sharing website I frequent though am far less active on than I should be, lost their life a couple of days ago in a car accident.

Calling them a friend would probably be going too far, but we've exchanged a few comments now and then and such.  They're just someone who's always been there in one way or another though, and while I never met them, judging from what I've heard from others, I'd like to think had we met, that I would have come to call them a friend. 

Just feels really odd...they were there only a couple of days ago, posting journals - and linking to a really beautiful bit of animation too Link, yet now they're gone.  Their partner was driving and has recently released from the ICU, it looks like they're going to pull through physically - but the emotional scars will take far longer to heal I imagine both for them and the families involved.

Life can be far too brief.

Just feel sort of, well, numb to be honest now.

This wasn't something I was originally going to post here - but one of the other usual forums I post on is suffering technical difficulties just now, so I was left with a block of text and nowhere to put it.  Given the nature of said text, it needs to go somewhere.

Calling myself an artist is a bit of a stretch...I can draw passably if I really put my mind to it, once every ten years...Acquaintance though didn't feel right.

There's a thread over on the Lada UK forums titled "Today I Mostly..." which has now stretched to 217 pages and gives a somewhat amusing insight into the day to day chaos of the members there...it's a bit like reality TV but in fast forward and more entertaining or at times thought provoking.

This was going to be my entry for there this evening.

Today I mostly...went about my usual evening routine, cleared out some email because it appeared that email mitosis had been occurring in my inbox over the last few weeks again, uploaded a few things to Flickr, fiddled around with the httpd.conf file on the server for a bit, then my productivity came to an abrupt grinding halt when I was informed by a friend that someone I know via an art sharing website I frequent though am far less active on than I should be, lost their life a couple of days ago in a car accident.

Calling them a friend would probably be going too far, but we've exchanged a few comments now and then and such.  They're just someone who's always been there in one way or another though, and while I never met them, judging from what I've heard from others, I'd like to think had we met, that I would have come to call them a friend. 

Just feels really odd...they were there only a couple of days ago, posting journals - and linking to a really beautiful bit of animation too Link, yet now they're gone.  Their partner was driving and has recently released from the ICU, it looks like they're going to pull through physically - but the emotional scars will take far longer to heal I imagine both for them and the families involved.

Life can be far too brief.

Just feel sort of, well, numb to be honest now.

Yes it can. The idea it can be cruelly snatched away in a split second makes us all feel frail sometimes.

Would you like life to be safer ? I definitely don't. (...) happens and thats it