When I started to write a little, I started looking at Green Mountain Daily.  I said to myself, “Holy crap.  Their site looks cooler than ours.”  But I was too humble at that point to bug Geoff.

Then my writing, although provocative, began to get a few compliments.  All the time I was watching GMD.  You re-did your look.  I said, “Wow!  They are much cooler than we are.”

Then I heard a V-log where John said we’re more connected, but you guys are ahead in tech.  Very perceptive, I thought.  I was encouraged yet eager to tell Geoff we needed to step it up.

Eventually, I just got too arrogant and bugged Geoff too much.  (A few compliments will do that to an ungrounded person.)  Then I noticed that GMD saw the awesome potential of suing for state records.

So, I did, all the while annoying Geoff more because he didn’t believe in the private record search.  Anyway, I used it to help Symington come in third.  But the GOP sees me as a wild man, and they don’t trust me.

This is all kind of like the Zen Master story in Charlie Wilson’s War.

Then I learned a deep, deep lesson from the Internet.   You see, liberals in education had been telling me to pay attention to the underachievers, to seek ways to connect to them.

But for 20 years, I was too arrogant to see it.  Then one day on my conservative website, I got a ping.  It was from a young Christian website.  A young person who had always thought I was a liberal, because, you know, in class I would bend over backward to be fair and balanced.  Now he was confused, because he’d stumbled upon my conservative website.

I knew this student had been someone who didn’t fit.  He’d had a religious upbringing, but I’d feared he’d lost his way. His grades had slipped.  He started hanging with shady characters. I distanced from him.   But I began to understand the awesome power of the Internet.  He didn’t fit in at FHU.  His interests weren’t mainstream (like basketball).  He discovered his talents on the Internet.  He had hundreds of followers across the country.

The Internet is both good and bad.  We have to watch out for it.  Tim Berners-Lee is, like, a God.  He created an awesome web, where everything’s there for a reason.  Kinda like our world.

It was a deeply humbling experience.  So, I’ve been reconnecting with education and with religion.  I hope you guys will wish me well.  I won’t be by here too much, because that would just be annoying for you.

I asked Charity the other day why you guys seem to put up with her.  She thought it was because you guys had met her once face to face.  I want to meet you guys.  First round is on me.  Maybe do shots with Julie, JD and Kestrel?

Meanwhile, I’m not getting along with Vermont Tiger.