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Saturday, June 12, 2004

selling sickness

Yesterday I listed a few things on eBay. I don't do this very often. Maybe this is because when I have something for sale on that ultimate Internet yard sale*, I simply cannot let it rest. I have to check my "selling" page every time I am near the computer, and I manufacture inane excuses to be near the computer more and more often as the auctions progress. It is like a disease. (I say that a lot. I must be very, very ill. Do you think this qualifies me for disability?)

*It is one of my few sources of genuine smugness that I, who thought at the time (autumn of 1996) that I was the last person in the world to get Internet access, have been online long enough to remember eBay when it was small enough that you could browse through the entire books section in an ordinary bored Internet session. I am not kidding. I also remember when Amazon was just books. Really it was! Fine, don't believe me.