This is in response to comment 6 on this post.

It was suggested by nursemyra that I could tell about how Nog & I met as part of NaBloPoMo , and then I thought that it would be fun if other people also shared their ‘how we met’ stories. So here is mine and I look forward to reading yours . . .

The story begins sometime in February 2003. I was in a bookshop looking for something interesting to read and came across The Salmon of Doubt by the late great Douglas Adams. I remember being quite surprised at the time because I didn’t know he had died until I read the book’s back cover. And so, over the next few days while I was reading I kept coming across references to h2g2, a website started by Mr Adams which was meant to be an a guide about Life, the Universe and Everything (a guide that previously only existed in his wonderful trilogy in four parts, The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – or ‘h2g2’ ). I finally checked the place out and started participating on a few conversation threads, one of which was called ‘God – Fact or Fiction?’. And a couple of days later I got a message on my personal page from a guy called Noggin.

So that’s how we first ‘met’ on Nog’s 50th birthday … and little did he suspect that his life was about to change. 😉

Actually, it didn’t change all that quickly. We were friends on h2g2 for almost two years, and had also moved on to IM chats and phone calls, before Nog decided to come to Sevilla (in August 2004) for a holiday and to finally meet me in person.

And well, he’s still here. 🙂

I’ve often thought about how different my life would be today if I’d never bought that book back in 2002. It’s almost scary how so much of what’s happened to me since then hinged on that one purchase, how it might not have happened. And I’m so glad it did.

Okay … your turn!