I bought a webcam on Sunday. I figured that since I have a snazzy new computer, and a desk to put it on, I may as well buy some computer accessories.

The cam will be viewable on my site from time to time here. As I write this, the most recent image is the one you see above, from last night, because right now it’s daytime and I’m at work.

I’ve realized, to my disappointment, that I can’t simultaneously stream video to my website and use the cam to chat on an instant-messenging program such as Yahoo! Messenger. That might be for the better, though, because so far, I’ve watched myself eat a bowl of spaghetti, and it wasn’t pretty.

I actually explored the Yahoo! chat rooms last night, and lots of people wanted to view my cam, and I let them. In fact, this random guy told me to take my shirt off. Didn’t ask me — told me. I declined, because I couldn’t see him and it felt creepy.

I’m glad I declined, because later I watched myself shirtless. And I’ve realized that if, for some reason, I do decide to take off my shirt in a private chat, I must change either my bedroom lighting or the camera angle, because on camera I looked thin and pasty.

Anyway, I didn’t get a webcam so people could see my body parts. I got a webcam because —

Because —

You know, now that I think about it, I don’t really know why I got a webcam.

Spaghetti, anyone?