We've all done it.

I know you've done it just as much as I have.

You're no better than me...admit it!!

You've done it too, I'm sure you have, so just come out and say it.

You've Googled someone, haven't you?  And, I bet you've Googled yourself, too, huh!

These days, with all the privacy issues and government regulations about personal information and all that, we Google ourselves just to make sure there ISN'T any information out "there" that we don't want CyberDude and his 7 billion croonies to have access to - or at least that's what we tell ourselves.  But, really, we Google ourselves with a secret hope that somehow, somewhere, someone got ahold of something really great that we did, and they posted it on the 'net, and now, by a great turn of fortune we find ourselves famous with a fan base we never previously knew about!  Right? 

And we Google other people, especially people from our past, just be sure that they AREN'T famous with a fan base that they might actually know of, and along with that possessing riches that we can only dream of.  'Cause, that would just be grossly unfair.  You know?

Well, just the other day, I was thinking about a past colleague of mine and I wanted to know if she was still involved in the field she trained me in all those years ago.  So, I Googled her.

Freak.

She's famous!!!

She's written a bunch of books and has a blog that is visited by 500 people per day; she's considered a guru in her (new) field and was, apparently, a child prodigy as she was taught this particular skill at the knees of her grandmother when she was but four years old; and, not only was she just blogging the other day about needing to go to a book signing (not to get signatures, folks, to GIVE them!), but she's even on Wikipedia!!!!

If I find out she's rich, I'm gonna...I'm gonna...I'm gonna...errrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!

But, don't worry about it.  I've got it all figured out - I just have to write a book.  Seems everyone who is anyone today has written a book and rode it's pages straight to stardom.  So, I'm just gonna do it.  I'm gonna write a book!

I'll start now:

"Once upon a time..." - nah, can't go there, it's over used.

"At the stroke of midnight..." - nah, can't go there, it either has to be romance or mystery, neither of which I understand in the least.

"During my painful childhood..." - nah, can't go there, 'cause then I have to expose my own skeletons, too.

"In this text you will find..." nah, can't go there, I hate textbooks!

"In the beginning..." nah, can't go there, God already wrote that one.

Darn!

There's nothing for me to write about!  Freak.  I'll just have to resign myself to life of obscurity with out fans or riches.

Note to self:  Don't Google people who aren't ALREADY famous.  You never know what you will find!