As I did a great deal of surfing this afternoon clicking from blog to blog and site to site I am happily refreshed to be walking outside to get my lunch in the real world. Sometimes when I am online I feel like a character I have seen many times in sci-fi and horror movies who is telepathic but can't block out the voices of either the living or the dead and hears a jumbled crowdlike noise all around him as he is unable to avoid the thoughts that hit him in rapid fire. Outside it is quiet, cool with a gentle rain and a slight breeze. The safety of breaking the link to the bustling agora of the web leaves me wondering what I was doing submerging myself in the soup of the lives of strangers.