Goodbye my almost lover...
Dec. 8th, 2009 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_milky_wayAfter 7 years today is the day that Aaron Peirsol Online.com will shut down.
I'll keep the news blog open but that will be it. I think it was a sign that the new company owning now owning the one I signed the domain with sort of didn't react at all when I tried to get a new account to renew the domain. Hope they don't treat all of the new clients like this. I should be sadder about it I think but I have sort of lost the big enthusiasm about it all. I still love swimming, I still love to watch and to know what Aaron is doing, I just don't need to have the site anymore.
I am a little sad though, seeing how many contacts I made through that site, where the site is listed and what kind of people actually still talk to me.
But Aaron has his own official site now and I think thart's one of the reasons why I am not trying to keep mine, I don't feel like something is left unsolved.. or whatever.
Seven years is a long time though and Aaron is still active.
But I have been thinking about it for a while now and I think I have come to terms with giving it up.
I feel like a huge part of my life is ending but surprisingly enough, right now I don't miss it all that much (I guess I'll miss all the lovely emails from NBC and Arena, and that is not meant in a sarcastic way, because those companies sort of know how to be fanfriendly).
It was fun while it lasted though and I don't regret a single thing.
ETA:
It also figures that now The Race Club has decided to follow me on Twitter and that Ed is back tweeting as well.
*g*
I feeling very melancholic right now.
ETA 2:
Geoff sure as hell seemed to be fascinated by the pool in Berlin. And by Mike
. And Berlin was the only World Cup meet he actually posted picture from.
Nice Skippy. :)
I'll keep the news blog open but that will be it. I think it was a sign that the new company owning now owning the one I signed the domain with sort of didn't react at all when I tried to get a new account to renew the domain. Hope they don't treat all of the new clients like this. I should be sadder about it I think but I have sort of lost the big enthusiasm about it all. I still love swimming, I still love to watch and to know what Aaron is doing, I just don't need to have the site anymore.
I am a little sad though, seeing how many contacts I made through that site, where the site is listed and what kind of people actually still talk to me.
But Aaron has his own official site now and I think thart's one of the reasons why I am not trying to keep mine, I don't feel like something is left unsolved.. or whatever.
Seven years is a long time though and Aaron is still active.
But I have been thinking about it for a while now and I think I have come to terms with giving it up.
I feel like a huge part of my life is ending but surprisingly enough, right now I don't miss it all that much (I guess I'll miss all the lovely emails from NBC and Arena, and that is not meant in a sarcastic way, because those companies sort of know how to be fanfriendly).
It was fun while it lasted though and I don't regret a single thing.
ETA:
It also figures that now The Race Club has decided to follow me on Twitter and that Ed is back tweeting as well.
*g*
I feeling very melancholic right now.
ETA 2:
Geoff sure as hell seemed to be fascinated by the pool in Berlin. And by Mike
. And Berlin was the only World Cup meet he actually posted picture from.Nice Skippy. :)
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:59 pm (UTC)speaking of which, aaron was in singapore two weeks ago (i think?) and i was dense enough not to pay attention T.T
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Date: 2009-12-08 03:02 pm (UTC)I do swim as well, just not professionally. But I see what you mean and thinking back I guess it did took a lot of dedication to do it.
Hehe, yes I know. It was the last World Cup stage. NBC was nice enough to mail me about it. But I think you wouldn't have seen much of him anyway. He didn't do all that good. :)
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Date: 2009-12-08 03:08 pm (UTC)yeah i could've guessed. i caught the finals by surprise and tried looking for his name during the backstroke but he wasn't in it. ah well. he was interviewed for this morning news program but i didn't have time to watch- rushing for work. crapfarkshit.
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Date: 2009-12-08 03:19 pm (UTC)Hehe, I caught some pieces on UniversalSports,com since I still have a free pass for that one. I thin he just did it because it was an event from his main sponsor and to see where he is training-wise... Kind of like Michale Phelps in Berlin.