/\/\!55 /\/\3? (leet speak)

So?  Did you?  Miss me?  That's what that says in the title.  I've been intrigued (o.k., totally sucked into) "leet speak" after seeing it featured on what I consider to be the most intelligent television program currently airing, "Numbers", (aside from anything on the Discovery channel or NatGeo).  :)  I've been busily changing all of my passwords with various leet converters I'm finding on the web, even going so far as creating my own personalized encoding, which just completes my absolute geekness.  I can't help it.  I love learning new and seemingly bizarre shit.  It's just part of my nature.  I'm easily amuzed and even more easily bored to tears.

One good thing about me though, is my "obsessions" don't tend to last long anymore, before I realize that they are truly NOT the most important thing on earth.  Not so important that I find the need to isolate myself from contact with people I care about and want to spend time with.  Yes, I've had my share of time sucks, mostly at work I must admit... FarmTown, ITR, MafiaWars, etc., but I can pretty much tell if it's affecting my relationships and when it does, I actually do make a conscious effort to stop the behavior. 

I've learned first hand, too many times, how painful it is to those "left behind" while someone runs off into the sunset thinking they've found their absolute happiness and purpose in someone or something that, in the end, when life is ending, won't mean a fucking thing.  I choose to go off on my little micro jaunts and come right back to the people I love.  Do I tell them how much fun it was and how much they'd enjoy it too, to try and recruit some company?  Absolutely.  But we are all so powerfully different in our interests and rhythms, that it rarely happens.  I choose to come back to this planet and inhabit the earth with my friends, instead of my self constructed universe that revolves around me.  I spend time with the ones who love me to pieces and will be there when I cry, with a hand on my cheek, a hug for my aching heart and a kiss on top of my head to help the bad thoughts melt away.  Will the ones who are with me today be there in the absolute end?  Who knows.  And honestly, who fucking cares.  They're here now and I'll take their hand while I can and let go when they choose to walk away, if/when that day ever comes.

Meanwhile, my inner geek will explore leet speak and try and convince all you guys how totally rad it is!  C'mon!  Let's go!  O.K., it's cool.  You stay here, and I'll be right back.    1 L0\/3 j00Z!  ;)