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Oh, these strange times we live in...

In the old days, when you broke up with your significant other, you did pretty normal things like:

- Tie their old tapes to bricks and toss them through the window

- Call them repeatedly and hang up

- Stalk them

Nowadays, things have changed.

I just removed Kori's blog from the Neopoleon server. I didn't particularly want to do this, but she asked me to do it a couple weeks ago, and I felt tonight that I had procrastinated enough, so down it came.

That's pretty weird. How do you handle these "relationship" blogs upon breakup? There's no real precedent for this - it's not like getting a divorce and keeping the house, half the cash, and half the dog.

Definitely odd.

Now I also have to figure out what to do with my "Kori" Outlook folder and associated rules. Do I trash those, too? What if she writes again? Blah.

Anyway, I wanted to apologize to those of you who had made Kori's old site a regular stop. I know that there was a handful of guys who enjoyed writing the occasional lewd comment about/to Kori, and that won't be easy to do now.

God, this feels weird...

Published Saturday, October 02, 2004 6:34 AM by Rory

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Rich C said:

I'm sorry to hear that, Rory. I'll admit, I thought to ask you about Kori's blog on Wednesday, but thought better of it.

Well, cheerio, keep your chin up, and all that trash. We will all be keeping you in our thoughts.
October 2, 2004 7:06 AM
 

Scott Hanselman said:

I keep everything, so I think you archive that folder in the PST. One day you will be friends, or you will look back and want to think about her. Save the bytes.
October 2, 2004 7:51 AM
 

robdelacruz said:

Man that's tough. You will wake up one day and realize the nightmare is over. Reminds me of the song 'Thanks that was Fun' by Barenaked Ladies.
October 2, 2004 9:13 AM
 

ZombieBob said:

Chin up! I once went through what your going through now. You just have to remember that while your going through it there will probably be at least another dozen women hanging on your arm over the next year or so that sadly you wont care much about aside from the fact that they are nice and you will be respectful but soon enough you will land on your feet. I'm tight with those dang run-on sentences but you just gotta keep on remembering the good stuff and let em know thats what you want to remember.

Geeze dude you have gone from Heroic to Legendary status over the last couple years so dont fret. Your awesome and those little comics you write make me laugh.

I had one for you ( comic that is.) Cut to scene where she slaps you like the womany in that evil dead parody and walks out. Cut to another scene where you have set up and effigy of your X like a little deceased persons shrine. EffigyX gets kiddnapped Sadam inane. You strap on your WS protocols and a red bananna and do the Sylvester Stallone imitation and crush a few dozen bad guys only to save her. She then kisses you and you pull her away and say the Ash thing. "First you wanna kill me then you wanna kiss me. (You pull her away agan) Then say lend me me some sugar baby and kiss her like you want to" Then she goes back on over to the dark side and you have to take her out as well but you feel real bad like bad Ash but your really real good like good Ash. Well to end the story the bad guy is dead, WS works, the chick is gone but you still get lots of others and who knows what happens from there.

BTW buy a big big long pillow and flop it down the middle of your bed. It wont talk back to you or wake you up at night.

Sheez I should stop in at one of your PDX visits or something and cheer you up or take you to the shooting range or something manly like that. Popping a cap in a target or two always took the edge off for me. Well that and some video games (Halo sniping) never hurt.

Anyway cheers. Get well...
October 2, 2004 12:50 PM
 

Corey said:

I'm going through a similar thing. I hosted my girlfriend's (of 5 years) blog. We broke up two weeks ago and she immediately informed me she was moving her blog. She since recanted that and decided to keep it on my server - we are on good speaking terms so far.

The odd part is we are communicating largely through our blogs. Not directly addressing one another, but certainly communicating.

My only concern is when the time comes and she feels like dishing on the NY dating scene and whotnot.

Again, good luck and definitely hold on to the emails. You'll want them - and maybe need them in court.
October 2, 2004 3:23 PM
 

Rory said:

Scott -

"Save the bytes."

Already there :)

I'm a digital pack-rat. I still have software I wrote in the mid 80s using MS BASIC 1.0.

You should see my email collection sometime...
October 2, 2004 4:52 PM
 

Rory said:

Corey -

"I'm going through a similar thing. I hosted my girlfriend's (of 5 years) blog. We broke up two weeks ago and she immediately informed me she was moving her blog. She since recanted that and decided to keep it on my server - we are on good speaking terms so far."

That's nuts - this must be something that geeks all over the place are having to deal with right now.

We need to standardize the protocol for this situation.

My hosting service needs an "I just broke up with this IIS application" button.
October 2, 2004 4:56 PM
 

Rory said:

Corey -

Forgot to respond to something...

"My only concern is when the time comes and she feels like dishing on the NY dating scene and whotnot."

Yeah - *that's* a fear of mine.

I just *don't want to know*. It doesn't really matter that we're broken up - I just really, really don't want to know.

It's not like you can get over a relationship of five years in two weeks...
October 2, 2004 5:02 PM
 

Kevin Daly said:

If I may offer a tip in this case (and it applies to letters and photos too): whatever the temptation, don't delete, archive.

These open-heart-surgery-without-anaesthetic times are never fun.
October 2, 2004 8:15 PM
 

Ian said:

"Its not like you can get over a relationship of five years in two weeks... "

Nope - it's not. It's gonna take some time - sorry.
When I split with my girlfriend of 7 years (my choice but..) it sucked. it took a LONG time to get over her.
It does happen though, hang in there buddy.

Sorry to hear Kori's not blogging anymore though - that sucks too.

Keep everything, but be prepared for them to trigger pain quite a long time from now.
October 2, 2004 9:39 PM
 

paul said:

When I lived on a farm (it just down the road from the WindowsXP Bliss desktop picture), I would name my chickens after Xgirl friends.
October 2, 2004 10:39 PM
 

Joe Duffy said:

"I'm a digital pack-rat. I still have software I wrote in the mid 80s using MS BASIC 1.0."

Hah... I keep everything, too. Unfortunately, I'm too lazy to get the bits off my old hard drives that are stacked in my office closet. I have 10 or so, including a 40MB drive from the early 90s. I doubt half of them will even spin up anymore, but it'd kill me to find out.
October 3, 2004 3:55 AM
 

rabbelcast said:

Archive the data, man. I'm sure you be very attractive to a certain type of (gold digging) woman now you work for the big man.

October 3, 2004 10:54 PM
 

Rory said:

rabbelcast -

"I'm sure you be very attractive to a certain type of (gold digging) woman now you work for the big man."

I hope not :|

Anyway, they'd all probably be surprised to learn that I took about a %20 pay cut to come work for Microsoft.

The benefits/vacation time/quality of work more than make up for it, but those aren't the things that would buy some greedy person a bunch of useless trinkets (fortunately).
October 3, 2004 11:29 PM
 

Pooja said:

I am sorry for you Rory. There's not much that can be done at this point, is there? except give it some time.

I can imagine you back to your normal self [*normal*...na, thats not the word] in some time :)
October 4, 2004 6:18 AM
 

NJ John said:

So tell us about how, with your WiFi tablet PC, how you were able to blog that entry from the bushes outside Kori's new place. ;-P

[Wow. It was not so long ago that, when you went through a personal crisis, idiots like me from around the world had no way to make smartass remarks about it! We've come so far as a species.]

Anyway Rory... just remember that although it's rough now, time heals all. In the meantime, thank Gawd we've got strip clubs and liquor.
October 4, 2004 10:28 AM
 

rabbelcast said:

Rory, if Kori's gone, does that mean the Chihuahua's gone too? In which case, it's not all bad news ...
October 4, 2004 2:19 PM
 

Kenny said:

My suggestion is to throw away all things reminded of her. Post her cell number on the internet, those hook up websites. Spam her email box. Go to the Trojan condom site and put address in the free sample forms. You will feel better after a while :)
October 4, 2004 3:06 PM
 

Haaron Gonzalez said:

I think is time for tequila and mariachi. maybe you need to have a litle crazy fun, outside of your life environment. Save al the mails and backup the blog database, they are only 0101001010010101010 with so much hart and feling. Tomorrow you will be fine and you would be lafing. Be a man, rory and be strong with you.
October 4, 2004 4:44 PM
 

NJ John said:

Clue #1 that you've been doing web development too long:

"a %20 pay cut"

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October 4, 2004 7:28 PM
 

Rory said:

NJ John -

"Clue #1 that you've been doing web development too long..."

I caught that "%20" just after writing the comment :) I make that mistake every once in a while...
October 4, 2004 8:04 PM
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