Pjs: hi

SwankiVY2: Hello.

Pjs: what are you doing?

SwankiVY2: Working on my website

Pjs: hey check this out

SwankiVY2: what?

Pjs: www.fortichetukneeresort.com

SwankiVY2: What is it?

Pjs: its a new gig I got

SwankiVY2: "gig"?

Pjs: you know the springs?

[Fort Ichetucknee was a nearby state park with a spring that was well known.]

SwankiVY2: yes

Pjs: yeah web design work

SwankiVY2: never been

Pjs: you should

Pjs: it purty

SwankiVY2: I got http 500 internal server error.

Pjs: http://www.fortichetuckneeresort.com/

Pjs: I am there right now...... ???

Pjs: so is a buddy of mine on a different connection... I dont know why its not coming up

Pjs: oh yah it was spelled wrogn

SwankiVY2: I don't know, it came up only the second time you Imed it to me

Pjs: spelling error

SwankiVY2: see how those matter? ::grin::

Pjs: that is probably the most frusterating thing with computers... one little error can make you go insane

SwankiVY2: none of the links work, is it supposed to be that way?

Pjs: well I just started it about 15 minutes ago

SwankiVY2: Oh, all right.

SwankiVY2: I don't usually send people to pages until they're ready to be explored, so I wasn't expecting that.

SwankiVY2: Unless I'm asking for advice or opinions on a new layout or something.

Pjs: well not everyone is like you

SwankiVY2: I know that.

SwankiVY2: And thank goodness.

Pjs: !!!!!

Pjs: well I just thought I would show you what I was doing.. why? for the HELL OF IT!!!! CACKLE!!!!

SwankiVY2: well, you sent me a link, and it was just a page of links and none of the links worked. . . . I wasn't sure if I was supposed to give you an opinion or something

Pjs: nahhhh SwankiVY2 just chatting with you for no particular reason

SwankiVY2: Well. good for you. I guess I'm going to continue working on my website now.

Pjs: hey put a link to www.swampshopper.com ok?

[Checking this page out, I saw that it was some University of Florida-affiliated site designed to sell stuff. I do not put ADS on my page. So you can understand my answer. . . . ]

SwankiVY2: No.

Pjs: why???

SwankiVY2: I'm not your advertising service. That's not what my website is for.

Pjs: what is your page for

SwankiVY2: My website is a personal website.

Pjs: well I am an online buddy right?

SwankiVY2: So, that means that everyone who IMs me gets advertisements for their personal gain on my site? That's not my intent.

Pjs: well I will link to yours.... deal?

SwankiVY2: You do what you like. I'm not going to link there.

Pjs: oh I see!!!!!!!

SwankiVY2: see what?

Pjs: how you are!!!!!!!! don't you like to be friendly?

SwankiVY2: Sure. But I already told you once that I was not interested in advertising for whatever that site is, and you kept badgering me, so I needed to tell you more firmly, I suppose.

SwankiVY2: You didn't get the message when I said I wasn't interested in linking there because my site is not for that.

Pjs: hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm you play hard ball.. what is the longest boyfriend you ever had?

SwankiVY2: that's not any of your business.

Pjs: Oh I see

[He quit IMing me after that, for some reason. (Heh, I wonder why??) The question about the boyfriend threw me . . . it's amazing to me how often people make these judgments about me and think I'm a complete bitch who has no friends and does nerdy things all the time just because I don't respond positively to them.]

Wolfgang: "what is the longest boyfriend you ever had?"
An anaconda. He was over six metres long. To be fair, I didn't know he was a non-venomous South American snake of the boa genus until AFTER we started dating. We broke up shortly afterwards, because HOW COULD YOU LIE TO SOMEONE LIKE THAT? I honestly probably wouldn't have minded that you were a nocturnal semi-aquatic reptile if you had just TOLD ME, Steve. Sorry, I need a moment.