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As usual I have come to the end of another day and I'm sitting here by myself. I'll go to bed in awhile by myself. There will be the usual person next to me but I will be basically by myself. I'll get up, by myself. I'll spend the weekend with the usual person but will be basically by myself. And, I will do my work pretty much by myself.

I've browsed my 'Facebook', my 'Outlook', some blogs, and have commented, chuckled, surfed, clicked, commented some more and erased. I've read several meaningless and inane articles I stumbled upon, read some news. Read a buncha shit about people I don't care about - all from the secure comfort of my space by myself.

I was at the office today with others, but basically by myself. I like to think of myself as a fairly sociable person. But, I dunno, it just kind of hit me today that we're all by ourselves. Everyone was driving by themselves. Shopping at the grocery by themselves. We're by ourselves. And lately, we've all been corporately hosed by somebody else. We don't really know who did it. And now we're all by ourselves watching, reading about what happened to us - by someone - that somehow has made us even more desolate and isolated than before.

I suppose someone may stumble upon this - by themselves - and may even read down this far. Well, howdy. You're by yourself, aren't you? And you don't know who did it either. Some selfish undeserving jackass at that AIG place, or maybe some butthead down the street, or the guy who cut you off in his Lexus (driving by himself) or maybe it was Dick Cheney. And you're still mildly pissed about something else you just read like a minute or so ago and can really do nothing about. We're all in this together - by ourselves. It's always something.