Life Is A Super-Highway

Word of the Post
Today's word is: pedipulate
/pe*dip"u*late/
"To operate with one's feet." ~~ Grandiloquent Dictionary
The word idea for today came from my parents-in-law. They are just as funny about words as my dad is. The definition came from this neat site I found online, and recommend that you visit. I did not write this entry, it is the property of the guy who runs the site. Like I said, go visit his site. http://www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/dict.htm
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I have a tendency to get lost on the information super highway. I need a map. Google Maps seems to work pretty well.

Have you ever Googled yourself? I have done the cute little search where you type "Name needs" or Name wants", and you get all sorts of people talking about how someone with your name needs to grow up, get a life, or get back on track. You can type any variation of your name, and find any number of sites that are talking about (not) you. Apparently, Chelf is a popular surname. This blog came up on page 4. Oh, boy, someone is actually watching!

My maiden name is a doctor, VP of Marketing, CEO, and several other wonderful occupations, as well as a Sim keeping a Diary online... I don't get it. My married name is an artist, a real estate agent, and my real self came up on page 3 of that search, too. I am the first (and a few later ones as well) entry when I Googled my favorite nickname, "mychelf". I have never thought about how just living would put little old me into a Google search.

What was I hoping to find? Really, I don't know. Was I hoping that I would be the first or only entry with any of my searches? Would I find significance in knowing that there are more people out there making the same jokes as me with their names, too? How would not finding myself made me feel any better?

The Bible says there is nothing new under the sun. Does that mean that there was a Chelf back in Bible times? Probably not; but someone must have made a wordplay out of their name or hobby. In my case, it just happened to be both. Did pre-literature times have computers? What happened to the written history of the world? Maybe it suffered a crash like we once feared from Y2K. All the old parchments were scanned into the computer... and then the weather fried the systems, and all history was lost, except for what a few typists could remember. Secretaries Rule!

The history of the world is still written down by the winners. Efforts will always be made by the losers to forget or revise the misery. And weather will always play havoc with your electronics. Thunderstorms are a-coming. More thoughts will pour out of my head later, when the pitcher is emptied of the rain.