carol ott online: life and work in pigtown

So I was sitting here messing around with the Web Archive, looking at all of the pages I had on my old website — I started this in 1998 or so, so it’s been through many revisions. My old website was more like a blog…just with more pages, and it didn’t get updated as often. Now I’ve brought back more of the recipes that I was able to find, and some of the genealogy pages that people seem to still be searching for.

I also found a page I called “Lists”. A list of things that make me happy, and a list of things that royally piss me off. (Or, as I said back then…”are a constant source of ire”.) That page was fun — and not much has changed. I still love driving too fast on twisty country roads, I still own well over a dozen turtlenecks, mostly black…and I still hate ISP tech support people and so-called “religious” people who shove their views down everyone else’s throat.

Then I came across a page I grandly titled “Life Changing Snippets”. I enjoyed that one. Now I send my daughter random photos I take with my cel phone as I’m going about my day — an egg, my feet, a lizard….(yes, I really came across a live lizard once — I was at the PetsMart.) But back then, I had no cel phone, certainly not with a camera…and I don’t even think digital cameras were the norm. Maybe….but I definitely didn’t own one. I used to write things down as I’d hear snippets of conversations, and some of the good stuff stuck with me. Remember — it was 1999.

A sampling:

Overheard From A Schizophrenic Homeless Man on the L2 Bus 11/15/99

From A Book About Helen Keller

Dating Advice From My Mother

Life Advice From My Cousin Stephanie