Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Confessions Of A Twenty Year Lep Fan - The Lep Brigade
Miles Run: A very quick and cold loogey hocking 2
Other Exercise: Shaa right my lungs were shot after that run
I came home after work and got online to get my free credit report. Wouldn't you know the minute I opened the page, some ass fuck who lives near by decided they needed to get on their cordless phone. One of our computers (the one I happened to be using at the time) uses a wireless network which means when someone switches on their cordless phone, the connection get scrambled. My guess is that whoever it is hasn't lived here long or they just got the phone because it only just started doing this recently. Anyhoo, I went in the other room to use another computer and not long after I got started, I had to get up again to get something from the other room. When I did, I noticed that there was a spot on my ankle that really itched. I looked down and discovered I was bleeding but I couldn't figure out what the hell I did to cause it. I got what I needed and went back to my chair and continued with getting my credit rating. When I got up to get the pages I printed, I checked my chair again (I had checked it once before I sat down the second time). The first time I looked, I couldn't find anything but the second time I ran my hand across the seat and I'll be damned if there wasn't a piece of glass lodged in the cloth. Well, that explains how I managed to cut my ankle and make it bleed profusely and wouldn't you know the only way I found it was by running my hand across the chair and catching my finger on the glass and cutting it. BASTARD!!!
At least the news I got about my credit was good which I knew it would be anyway but having it confirmed just gave me extra peace of mind. I ended up paying the $5 to get my actual score too just because I was curious to know. 769 out of 830. According to Experian, that is higher than 82% of the consumers out there and enough to put me in the excellent range. Can't really complain about that.
Ok, enough of my ramblings about stuff I doubt you care about. Time to move on to what I know you are all just dying to read, the second installment of my Lep adventures.....
It wasn't until the release of X that I discovered the online side of the Def Leppard fan world and later the ugliness of it. I had been on the internet for a fair amount of time before this but I guess since it had been awhile since anything had been put out by the band, it just didn't click with me to look. That and my musical interests had changed to some extent so I just wasn't as into their music as I once was. I still liked the band and knew that I could purchase their albums without being disappointed but I wasn't what I would call a "fanatic" meaning I wasn't actively seeking things with the Def Leppard name on them to snag up in a heartbeat like I did when I was a teen.
My first online interaction with other fans was through the official Def Leppard forum. People seemed to be generally nice and accepting, however, this is typically how things will play out in a more "formal" sort of setting with discussion ground rules and so on. Through this forum I found out about other fan groups on Yahoo & MSN which were a little more informal so I decided to join a few of them. For the first few months, I enjoyed being in these group and there were a few people who I met through them who I really liked talking to, but I did think some of them (two in particular) were sort of "cliquey" especially when it came to chats that were held for the group. Because of that I decided to start my own Yahoo group called the Lep Brigade. About 30 people joined. Not a lot but a nice size for an all ages group. At this point, I wasn't aware of all the bickering that was going back and forth but looking back on a couple of incidents that happened at the time (an email that I received and one person who joined only to turn around and unsub shortly after and emailing me an excuse which I think was probably a cover), I have a feeling they were because of it. That was turned out to only be the tip of the iceberg though.....
Tomorrow night - my first encounter with online fans in the flesh.
Righty rosey roo. Whose Line is on and I can't resist Wayne Brady. He just cracks me up like no one else.
Knocked Off By The Fashion Diva
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