Spare Notes

Old Guestbook Gems #3

This comes from my old guestbook, written roughly 25 years ago.
It’s interesting looking back at what people wrote — a bit of a time capsule.

DATE May 11th 2001


"ummmm no not really well ok then!,just this once! awesome site there S! and a quote too even:"live for today and not tomorrow"


This entry was from someone called W.

I'm not 100% sure what the first bit was related to. Maybe I had a question or something.

I don't remember too much about her. I know she was married and had maybe 3 kids. She was a nice person who was supportive and lending an ear to some young dumb guy trying to navigate the world.

I have this vague memory of being at my very first job sorting something out in this upstairs storage room and I was either text messaging her or gave her a phone call.

It's funny what your memory can hold onto.

If I remember correctly her husband was not a fan of any of this contact. Which was purely platonic. I just liked talking to people.

At some point she was told to stop talking to me.

It's funny when I think back. I wonder if we've crossed paths at some point. I wonder if she's seen my name randomly in a news article and not realised the random diary / blogger from back in the day is the same person.

The other thing I think about after looking at the old guestbook, I wonder how many of the email addresses I can see people are still use 20+ years later.

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