The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Blogger

Good afternoon all. Sorry for the obscenely long gap since my last post - I fell asleep one afternoon last October and, Flight of the Navigator style, only just came to. It's all right though, nothing's really happened in the last eight months, though I do hazily remember being taken on a voyage through time on a wonderful chrome spaceship...

So, having dusted down my neglected Blog and given it a nice cup of tea, I was shocked to find my last post had a little light blinking down at the bottom. It read,

"3 Comments."

I hadn't figured on that. In fact, if I remember correctly, I had failed the first rule of blogging and hadn't actually told anyone about this site. As a physical space I'd treated it much like a building site: hoping for it to be one day filled with the hubbub of enthusiastic chatter but leaving it currently cold, alone and unfinished. Bless.

Who, I enthusiastically wondered, could these distant travellers be, come to bring light into my hermetically sealed Blog of solitude?

My first comment was from "markclinton15159188." Hello Mark! What have you to say, eh?

"Get any Desired College Degree, In less then 2 weeks!"

Bollocks.

I'd fallen for the oldest trick in the book. I'd come home from holiday to feverishly tear open the sole letter lying on the mat, already imagining the heady delights of a letter from friends afar, only to reveal an invitation to receive a new credit card. I had been spammed good and proper. Retreating embarrassed to lick my wounds I chalked up another silent blow to the fiends of mass advertising; those silent, vacuous hordes lurking on the periphery of all that's decent and pure.

And so, I am back. I've had my cynicism further galvanised perhaps, but I'm back nonetheless. I'll put my feet up with a glass of orange squash and a book. Tomorrow we'll rejoin our journeys together and travel far from the agents of indiscriminate spam. For now, cheerio dear chum. I've a sudden, obscure desire to pursue a college degree in under two weeks...