I just noticed there's a bunch of spider webs on my mic or my camera. Why do you come over here?

They're just like one or two wisps, but I'm like of all places, like, I'm here every week.

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Hey, Hannah. How are you? Hey, Tina. I'm doing okay. It is a wonderful rainy fall-ish day over here.

And I am living for it. How are you? Same. I know it was raining. I'm like, Lily, Lily,

look, it's raining. And she's like, great. It was drizzling while I was at school earlier.

I was like, don't lose your whimsy now that you're in kindergarten. Like, listen to the sound and smell it.

She was like, okay, mom, she's a big kid now. Don't lose your whimsy. Don't lose your whimsy, you know.

My first aim username AIM, was Smell the Rain.

Really? Yeah. Fun fact. That's a good one. That is on brand. You know, mine was T's 2550, so less good. You know, I was a sports related? Or was it just like your name T. Tina. But what's 2550 so less good you know i was it sports related or was it just like your name tina but what's

2550 sports related that was our okay my number yeah i was gonna say five was sound like sports numbers

or like jersey numbers i guess you call them exactly sports'm like your classic, like, I don't know, dummy. My God. So, wait. How old were you when you had your first AOL name? Were you like? I mean, I had to have been like middle school or like late elementary. Okay. Yeah. You know, like maybe like fifth grade or something like that. Yeah,

weird, right? Yeah. I can't think about it. It being my kids one day being online. Don't love it.

I know. I know. Don't love it. Yeah. And I definitely have not, I don't have bad, bad stories, but there were

definitely situations where I'm like, oh, I'm not excited for

those things to happen. Yeah, right. I probably shouldn't have done that. But anyway, the internet

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