I figured out that empathy should be a perpetual thing, not invoked on command. Thus, I've changed it.

Run empathy
*Running Empathy.exe. Empathy.exe will reside in the system tray. Please select options: New, Load, Save, Help, Exit*
Help
*Empathy Version 2.0*
New
*Preparing to start up new empathy file... Please wait... New empathy file successfully created!*

Until I choose exit, it shall be 'on' all the while. Makes more sense to have it there all the time then use it when required.

I feel kind of elated. My strategy had worked! Hypothesis proven! In what I had expected, at least. However, I'm not banking everything entirely on my own efforts; other causal factors could have come into play. This is the fun part of technology - anonymity. I went on a snooping spree just now, all in the safety of my own home. To others, I'm known only as 'hg' or 'herzberg'. Nobody really know my true identity. I'm just lines of code streaming on an open world. In an open world where knowledge is just as open, as long as you can find it, that is.

At the same time, I sense the sharp, piercing pain of the winds of change. They're howling out loud, whipping around me all this while. I must have been deaf to ignore their presence. The change was so defined, so distinct and so unwanted.

I also feel a little bit unwell. As Morpheous said, "The mind makes it real." I've been thinking too much recently and my mental worries naturally translate into physical illness. Hope that sweetie doesn't catch the flu bug from me and fall ill too. She has lost some weight due to excessive stress and cannot afford to lose more due to any illness. I think she is pigging out now.

Before I go find her in lala land, I'd like to make a note. I've discovered why the two factors are equal. I shall confirm my doubts some other day.

Off I go to lala land to look for my sweetie!