okay, re CM, I wasn't quite clear (but it was late and I'd come from a belated birthday dinner with lots of wine) Did the old guy know what was going on? Was his "price of admission" fixing the freezer? Or was he just a dumbass who knew that something was wrong, but didn't bother to do anything about it? I was kind of confused.

He knew, Vortex. He was a special kind of whackjob who I think liked seeing the aftermath, rather than the execution. At least, that was the impression I was left with.

I haven't googled my name lately, but in the past, I've shared my name with a TV clown in Iowa. Who died about 20 years ago.

I share my name with a physicist in California, a manufacturer of travel accessories, a tennis player, and even another lawyer here in town. Try to find me!!!! Actually, if you google me connected with my place of work, you can find me, but other than that, it's a crapshoot.

Also two lawyers in my firm, one in SF and one in this office.

Googling my name mostly turns up me, but you will also get a former VP at Chevron, a fighter pilot and a prisoner at the infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp Andersonville (a book I had to read in High School).

I have an unusual maiden and an extremely rare married names, and my family is concerned we not be easily id'd or located on the netz, so I've tried to be circumspect. I'm findable by my lj name, which I use more places than LJ, but not easily by my actual last name.

I remember when I was running deathmatches during my lunch hour and we'd all get into a fever waiting for somebody to get back from lunch to cast a deciding vote.

I was just reading up on all that in order to remind myself how to run the SPN deathmatches. Man, those were times...and I'm surprised there isn't more automated tournament bracket software out there. Or maybe it's just that there's nothing for Macs and that's only where I've been looking.

There are a surprising number of people with my name, considering. Most notably, to me, an Irish artist and a South American socialite. But most of the googles of it are me now, because my job search resulted in the posting of a lot of resumes.

You mostly get me, but I seem to have a distant cousin with the same name who is an atheist.

I used to be the only living person with my name, but now there's a middle-schooler in Australia. (There's nothing too personal with my name out there - just standard CV stuff, and Facebook, which I treat as wide open even though I lock it down.)

I did receive, in the mail at my house on Tuesday, a postcard addressed to my aunt from her high school alumni association. It was addressed to her married name, but we shared a maiden name. Unfortunately for her high school classmates, she died in 2004. But I was like, wow, they were drawing a bow at a venture there.

I've started seeing photos of my 20th high school reunion, which I missed last weekend in favor of California. Boy a lot of people are looking old. (-hides mirror-).