There have been several times when I felt my blood drain from my face. I mean, seriously drain from my head. I'm not saying that just as a descriptive phrase conveying surprise. There were times when I literally felt like I was going to faint, or maybe fall over like comedic anime characters usually do.

One of those times was about two hours ago. I went to one of my numerous webpages to get an image for...some reason I don't have time to write about. But, instead of my webpage appearing on the screen, Yahoo! Geocities greets me.

"Sorry, the webpage you requested was not found."

Ah, yes. The dreaded phrase. But, no, that's not my bodyfault moment yet. To cut a long story short, my web space had been...well... "reclaimed" by Yahoo! That was my eye-widening, fall-off-the-chair moment. At first I didn't believe it. I knew there HAD to be some kind of mistake. But no~, all the images I collected were gone. Actually, if that was it, it would've been fine. What really bites is the fact that there were several -- a LOT -- of stuff I wrote... and they were gone.

Transformed into pointerless nodes floating in cyberspace.

My first impulse once I regained consciousness was shout protests and "I don't believe this"s at the computer screen. Stuff like, "How could Yahoo! do this to me?! There's supposed to be a warning email first, isn't there?!"

Actually, it turns out that there was. I never got it becuase the email address I had registered there was the one I wasn't using anymore. Well, I suppose it served me right for not updating, or at least log on once in a while.

So, for the past two hours, I've looked positively weird, smiling every now and then... I mean, it really IS silly, that whole encounter. Imagine, me totally freaking out just because of a webpage... I suppose my "writings" were quite a loss, add the fact that that website was the one with most hits among all my websites.

Maybe this is a good thing, now that I think about it. Now I have less websites to "worry" about. Not that I really worried about them. The site was reclaimed precisely because I haven't been using it, so it's not that important is it?

Sorta like a lot of things in our lives. Clutter that we have even forgotten that they were there in the first place. As my mom's book says, "If you don't use it, get rid of it."

So, there, I got rid of it.

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