OK, so entire lives -- births, deaths, marriages, divorces, nifty new restaurants -- are transpiring among my friends and I have been missing it all because I was not *gasp* ONLINE. 

It's not that I'm new to computers.  I was once the go-to person in Arthur Andersen's tax division for WordStar support and I am not making that up.  And yet... I have no web site.  No blog.  No (so help me god) Facebook or MySpace page.  A tiny handful of Ravelry projects, yes, but that's it.  Why not? 

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