https://dev-www.0x69616e.com/tags/life/ Recent content in Life on Ian's (not so) technical blog Hugo en-us Ian Wilson. Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:51:59 +0000 https://dev-www.0x69616e.com/posts/looking-for-the-past/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:51:59 +0000 https://dev-www.0x69616e.com/posts/looking-for-the-past/ <p>I spent a little bit of time tonight looking for one of my lost friends &ndash; only to discover that she passed away last year, ended up in a pauper&rsquo;s grave, and her mom is still posting &ldquo;where Is my daughter&rdquo; posts on Facebook.</p> <p>She wasn&rsquo;t the type of person who would constantly text me, but, every few weeks, she&rsquo;d ask how I was, and we&rsquo;d spend an hour or so talking: mainly because we always wanted to catch up. I changed my long-term number in the winter of 2020 to my new number, and she probably didn&rsquo;t see my text in the litany of spam texts that she normally had on her phone.</p>