Envy

As some of you may know, my boyfriend (we’ll call him… Good-Looking) has created a blog, which he updates regularly with, shall we say, clever entries. Each morning, when I call Good-Looking on my otherwise boring twenty-five minute drive to work, he informs me that he has posted a new entry on his blog. Each morning, I arrive at the office, eager to read his clever new post. I must admit, it is a great way to start a new day.

However, each afternoon, when I call Good-Looking on my otherwise boring twenty-five minute drive home, he updates me on the number of people that have visited his blog. The numbers continue to grow, and with them my jealousy grows as well. I want people to appreciate my writing enough to visit my blog each day.

I have thought for a while now about creating my own blog, but I was not convinced of doing so until yesterday morning during an unusual power outage at work. While the internet was still up and running, the Terminals Server, on which I perform my daily duties, unfortunately died. This left me with nothing to do but surf the internet. (Darn!) So after some internet browsing and shopping, I found myself back on Good-Looking’s Blog.

Well, as some of you may have noticed, at the top of each blog is a “Next Blog>>” button. Curious, I clicked this, and discovered that apparently three fourths of all Bloggers are from other countries. I came across some written in Spanish, some written in German, other written in languages I could not distinguish. The other fourth of Bloggers, however, are not from other countries, but rather other worlds.

These otherworldly bloggers apparently write in code, as demonstrated in a blog entitled “??Diary.” Each entry consists of numerous question marks with random numbers thrown in between. I have yet to break this code, but I am working on it and am fairly certain that once I do, I will be able to build the equipment necessary to travel to distant galaxies and converse with the aliens (different from the aliens blogging in Spanish).

42J5 !Q@#wel:rj #2JRIO L weA ?>32lkal.

In case you didn’t understand that code, it means “Thank you for reading.”