It’s no shock to anyone here that I love my online friends. My husband and I met online, and my best friend and I have never met in person, yet we talk every day.

It’s also no surprise to anyone who’s read my blog lately that I’ve been trying to make more connections nearby. I want to have friends to go out with sometimes, for a drink, for a movie, for pizza… anything, really. The other day, I thought I had an opportunity to do that, but it didn’t work out. Naturally, I was pretty bummed.

I logged into World of Warcraft to try and chat it up with some of my friends, and said that I was a bit upset that it didn’t work out. My friend Tibburt met me in Stormwind, told me to follow him out to the bridge, and sat down with me. He gave me a stack of drinks, and just sat and talked about water-walking and his girlfriend’s balding pet bird.

It’s things like these that make the loneliness a bit more bearable, you know?