Here’s to ten more…

I have never been bored in the company of Lance Arthur, not online and certainly not in person, not once in the ten years he's been writing on the web.

Anniversaries like this, the round ten-year kind, are supposed to herald retrospectives that showcase what has come before and yield tear-stained memories of the changes wrought and the regrets still painful and discolored. Unfortunately, I can't dig deep into the archives because some months ago, it was all erased. Gone. The digital bits and bytes all lost except for the few tattered remnants logged by the Wayback Machine, and looking at those pages kind of makes me sad.

But it's been a long time since we sat down to talk, you and I, so I thought I would take this opportunity to offer up some reflections on what has been and what might be, on where I've traveled and what I've seen, the hopes that were dashed to the rocks and the dreams fulfilled.

Lance's was one of the first truly personal websites I discovered in my early surfing and in my own such efforts, I've spent the time since trying and failing to live up to his example. Offline and on, he's a genuinely good guy: smart, funny, honest, creative—an authentically beautiful mind. He's handsome and shy, bitchily witty and charmingly self-deprecating. He is, in short, a catch, and someone I'm so very grateful to know.

Congratulations on achieving ten years along the information superhighway, my friend.

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