A Sad Day
You know, a lot of people like to complain about the internet, and especially social media, and there's certainly a lot to complain about. But there are some things that it provides that we never had before, and one of those things is our ability to interact with people that we would never otherwise meet. Years ago a friend tipped me off that there was a blog she was having fun with. It was a woman in Canada who wrote the blog as though her cat was writing it, and if you kept up with it long enough you would swear that you'd come to know Mojo and could recognize his "voice" from his blog. As time went on several of us began to participate in the comments in the voice of our own cats (and in one case, a dog, and some bugs). It became a sort of social media for cats, and it just worked. Sure, it was silly, but it was fun, and we more or less got to know each other that way. Then back in 2018 I learned that I was a candidate for cochlear implants, and one of the g