Rerun: Hey, I used to know a Delmer

A rerun per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. Edited a hair. Originally posted September 2, 2005.

Once in a while I will Google for a long-lost friend. Or someone I knew when I was younger. Or I’ll have an I-wonder-whatever-happened-to someone moment. Oftentimes the Googling returns hit after hit for a person whom, I’m sure, has led an interesting life, but isn’t the person I was wondering about.

Just the other day I Googled for three of my buddies, Roy, Joe and Dave, and while I found multiple instances of each (using their full names), none of the hits returned the person I was trying to find. As it happens, I know where each one of these guys live.

Several months ago I Googled for and found a guy I worked with 18 years ago. He’d been teaching in California. I dropped him a line and he sent me a map to the Lost Dutchman Mine. (I used the money from the mine to rent my own little corner of the Internet and set up www.delmer.com.)

As luck would have it, Googling for “Delmer” and “Delmer Wells” returns www.delmer.com at the top of the list … at least as recently as today.

Based on past search statistics, there is a 3% chance you were using “delmer” as your search term when you stumbled across this site. So, if you entered the Internet today looking for a “Delmer,” you found one. Which means you are much better off than the person who came here using the search phrase “eating pizza with frogs.”

If I’m the Delmer you were looking for, drop me a line. I can’t guarantee I’ll send you a treasure map of any sort, but you can be confident I won’t bombard you with daily mailings containing dumb-blond jokes or potions guaranteed to make you a better person.

Just click the Contact link. (Which I really need to put up… in the meantime use blog2 at delmer dot com. Be sure to use the @ and . where needed.)

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