Day One hundred and seventeen - Crushing the scepter (regaining a lost dominion)

Before I move forward much more with the story, let me talk about a few important things that happened late 2004/early 2005 - the common denominator being that I got that telecoms job. So, and chronogically, first thing is someone I met during my training, and it would be remiss of be if I didn't speak of her a bit - even though her presence in my life was mostly limited to that time frame, and though a few years down the late we'd meet up again. Her name was Mafalda, and damn, she was really young when I met her - I think she was 18 or 19. She couldn't have been twenty yet, though she was far more mature than her age might have indicated. We met during our initial training, and we were the only ones who didn't really buddy up with the others, so we usually just kept to ourselves. This actually led to us getting to start to know each other, and we really got along well. The other lot we had training with didn't take kindly to this, and they were always trying to insinuate that there was something going on between us - there wasn't, really, not then. Some months down the later we'd come to make out about twice, but we always knew that we'd be better off as just friends. After training was done, we kept in touch with other, and actually hung out a bunch of times. There was a time in my life where I sort of wished that maybe we could have actually tried something back then - other thn the occasional snogging - but I'm happy we didn't. 

Another important bit was when I first got to the store, and I got along pretty well with everyone there, but there were a couple of guys I got along with better - and one of them introduced me to the concept of social networks. One of them wasn't a social network as such, or at least not as we understand them now, but it did have a social aspect about it. He had an account in the old Fotolog platform - dead by now - and he said that he'd met a lot of people, and by 'people' I mean 'girls', through it. I thought why the hell not, and created an account as well. Now, I've never been one to have many pictures on my computer - either of myself or of something else. I never had a digital camera, and phones back then still weren't that great at taking decent pictures. So somehow I managed to get a friend of mine to take some pictures of me, and do some cool edits on them, so I could start uploading them. I always wrote something to go with them - something that, were I to read it now, I would find cringe-inducing and trite, I'm sure.

And so it was that through this platform I'd come to meet a girl with whom I'd start dating in early 2005 - Susan.