Friday

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Before I answer this particular question, I also wanted to record for posterity the first time I found out about the internet.  It was January 1995, I was 18 and had just been out to the pub with friends as a farewell-do for me, as I was about to leave Germany after spending 12 months there.  It had snowed, and we were making snowballs (which, after having spent a year there, and making several, still gave me a buzz).  And my friend Moritz told me about his older brother, who had been sending letters to a guy he knew in Japan, and you could just type them up and send them on the computer, and it was called "e-mail".  And we all said, "Wow..." or something similar. 

Since having internet, I've gone through phases of addiction, but fairly recently, I have to say I've culled down what I read.  I used to read a fair few blogs but have come to the conclusion that unless people have incredibly interesting lives (which doesn't happen that often) or can write really well, it's just a time-waster for me, at a point when my time is fairly precious, especially if it's time when I'm on my own.  I even went through a phase of having Wednesdays "off" - no TV, no internet.  It was liberating, but it's a bit more impractical these days.  Perhaps I'll start it up again at some point...