Welcome to all of the newcomers!! I figured it was about time for me to step and post the next in this series being as how #13 is at 115 comments!(at least right now anyway)
If you would like to look at the other threads in this series go check out Diane’s Diaries
For all of the recent new users out there, this is a place for you to introduce yourself and get to know all our other fine posters here in the pond. (and don’t forget the insane amounts of mojo!)
Well unfortunately it has taken what seems like forever to post this due the rampant thundershower over my head. I can’t promise that I can monitor this thread as close as I would like, due to poweroutages. Rest assured I will be here to welcome and to dish out all the mojo my poor lil hands can manage!
I also would like to add that this is my first diary ever! See how good the frog is? A lurker steps out of the shadows!
[editor’s note, by Cake or Death] Don’t forget to un-recommend the previous Wagon
Update [2005-6-10 16:33:41 by Cake or Death]: If anyone is interested in being a part of the welcoming squad check out Diane’s other diary Here
Cake just when I was looking for you and posted a query, there you were. Good job. Would you mind posting the transfer on the previous diary. We just keep on rollin, rollin, I’m thinking of the song…..
LMAO! We just keep missing each other! I just did that š
the wagon link seems to be broken…
oh no! rushing to fix! thanks for the heads up!
it’s just missing the = between href and “
thanks…damn poweroutages and html…
Ha! damn mother nature! hahahaha! š
I so suck at html š
It works now. Everyone – can we all troll rate my first psst comment and make this go away?
Ha – that got your attention. People around here are just constitutionally unable to hit that 0, huh? OK, I have to admit that I really love that about all of you – but if I ask really, really nicely – will you please help me do a little housekeeping in here by troll rating the 3rd post ^ up there. It’s the first one that says psst. It would look so much … more orderly, you know?
Hi zander,
I did it. But folks – remember to stop when it’s just below 1.0 average. No reason to pile it on. And if you gave a 4 – downrate it to 1 to limit the necessary number of 0’s to wipe it out.
Hope that wasn’t too obscure.
Sorry everyone,
curly and I are sitting here logged on to her laptop (and her user). I totally forgot. The comment above – and the requested 0-rating were done by my fingers!
Great job, zander. And diane101, shirlstars, Man Eegee, Oui and everyone who has made such great effort the last few days. The community is getting together – only problem is that the diaries start scrolling by too fast to keep up with all.
Get some well deserved rest this weekend, if you can.
Bah! Does it have be troll-rated? I don’t mind it being there honestly.
Heh. I can use it in later diary to show how much better I have gotten at the “posting diarys” kinda thing. š
I already did – while logged on to curly’s account.
zander – should I change it to a 4?
I’m afraid we risk major misunderstandings on how to gently hide a comment upon request?
LOL nah if he wants it to go it can go. š See? this is why I love this place! We get into a discussion over a rating. I love you guys š
</hugs all over this board>
you, but I’m just goofy happy at the moment. This has been such a trip!
i am with ya!! i am annoying my husband so much that he’s building me a computer sometime this month!!!
I’m sorry, I hadn’t thought about that. My bad. I’ll leave this up to you cake and ask. I was only thinking about the ratings, which I don’t mind taking at all in the interest of ‘prettying’ things up – but I hadn’t thought about posterity. It’s your call.
OK.
Only four ratings at the moment – a 4 and three 0’s.
curly and I will change to 4’s. I’s sure Man Eegee will come back at some point and change back (yet again) to a 4.
This was sort of fun – wasn’t it?
is my command. š Sorry for the spotty attendance record of mine today. I thought I would have more time around here but all those things I procrastinated on yesterday couldn’t wait anymore. Thank you all for helping out. You’ve been grrrrreat. (make sure to roll your r’s on that)
place is pretty amazing.
and I’ve been meaning to ask you if you happen to be askquestions in another existence.
Shoot – almost did it again, posting from curly’s account. Just ‘back’ from dinner. We ordered in – Vietnamese.
zander – I am ask on dKos (and DailyGotham) as well. I have also noticed ‘askquestions’ on dKos – not me. But my handle has two additional interpretations in my native Norwegian, beyond what most probably think here:
shhh – maybe we’ll have to do the whole hidden comment thing again..
I would absolutely not have otherwise known. Cool.
I’m sorry to have just run amok in here – long messy threads, requests for the unheard of 0 – totally thoughtless, and kind of like the beer spilt on the carpet I saw mentioned the other day. <sheepish> Sorry.
I have to laugh though – it would have been very easy for all of this to have gone the other way, and it speaks volumes about the community you’ve all built here that it could withstand such an onslaught so gracefully. There are hundreds of people who have just reveled in the kindness and good feeling. Wow.
Bah! I just construed it as you trying to save me some face. Which I greatly appreciate but it’s not necessary. š It’s always good to learn from your mistakes.
I agree that it could have gone the other way and I too, am wallowing in all the happy vibes that everyone at the Frog Pond is dishing out.
ha – made ya’ think I knew what I was talking about, huh? Sneakin’ html in there…
What you’ve just witnessed is me stretching my very limited knowledge to dangerous limits… (but we didn’t break anything, right?)
Ya’ – I couldn’t have imagined the two of us having issues over comments disappearing – we’ve both had too much fun today – but just in general, this week has been supernaturally smooth, all things considered.
Well hell! You sure fooled me! š
Either way, you knew more than me at that point. We’ve been having so much fun I am scared that’s gonna be illegal when we wake up tomorrow!
ssssshhhh don’t tell anyone
Hint:
If you have trouble reading this diary due to the width, you can select dynamic threaded above and it will reform in a nice tight pattern. Much easier to read. That will not effect any other diaries as it reverts back to the nested when you leave the diary.
There are now so many Welcome Wagons rolling around that it is a danger to life and limb š
Do we need traffic lights?
rotfalol I hope that is the right intitals for rolling on the floor etc. I can’t tell you the chuckles I have had today with diary entries and this was another one. Never did I dream that we would have these ad infinitum welcome diaries on this site.
Yeah, the traffic is pretty darn snarled up over here,I had this huge hot list that was driving me crazy with all the new comments, just deleting a hotlist item is a major thing lately and not to mention looking at recent comments. I used to be able to load them in about 30 sec. and now it can take minutes, what must it be like for dial ups. Shirl says she can make a sandwich, eat it, have a cig and still wait for page to load. I sent her a pic in email once and it took about 30 min to download.
Keep the humor coming Mr. Sven. Shoot me an email sometime. Still waiting for sushi, did you send yet.
‘oh, #15 probably won’t roll around for a day or so’ – now where did I hear that just a little while ago???
I’m ROTFLMAO.
Diane – I keep trying to make more sushi than we can possibly eat – but there never seems to be any left over. My daughters (13 and 15) are black holes as far as sushi is concerned. The amount of seaweed they have consumed should give them full iodine protection against any radiation.
The salmon we get here is excellent, but of course abalone, tuna etc is imported. But we improvise. The best sushi is out on the island in the archipelago (we’ll probably be there for a couple of weeks in late July). We catch fish every morning, keep them alive in a ‘sinkbox’ in the bay, then gut ’em and fillet ’em about 5 minutes before making the sushi – you can’t get fresher than that…
Oh Sven you are making me so jealous, that would be my dream for sushi. I started to take my kids to Japanese resturants when they were babies, and they would sit in their high chairs and have egg flower soup with rice, to this day they love that and miso soup.
We tried to keep them away from sushi as long as possible, because hubs and I didn’t want to share or pay for their what would be enormous consumption (3 kids). Our celebration dinners are almost always held at our fav. japanese restaurant.
I live by the ocean also and have had fresh out of the ocean fish, but now I don’t make the trip down to the beach early in the moring to buy fish before it is all sold out.
Cheers to sushi!!!!!!
“Rolling On The Floor Ass Laughing Off” … yeah, that works, in some bizarre fashion!
I’d call these traffic snarls a “happy misfortune,” myself. For some reason I’m reminded of the scene from “Miracle on 34th Street” when the Post Office guys dump all the letters on the judge’s bench at the trial … maybe it’s the sense of an avalanche of information snowing us under. Well, I’m off to spread some “4” love around….
Try to avoid Carpal Stress Syndrome – it’s an occupational hazard round here
… “Trackpad Hand” and it’s already an occupational hazard! But the physical discomfort will be far out-weighed by the karmic satisfaction.
bouncer in the previous diary for any stragglers.
What a team we have here, and Cake could you please add link to the meet up team diary into your diary, do you know how, just click edit my diary and you can add or change. We need some more volunteers.
So Zander the bouncer, have you slept at all and when was the last. Isn’t this the greatest fun party. I will do a party diary soon I think.
Did you ever dream you would be posting like gang busters a week ago. Say could you patrol for misplaced 3’s too.
Yeah, what a team we are, good going gang, let’s name ourselves, well I guess the obvious would be the Welcome Wagon Gang wouldn’t it. Any one have any other suggestions.
This system would work on other projects as well. Lets think on that, k. all.
Love ya.
okie dokie will do…still trying to figure out this html thing…might have to recruit the hubby again. š
…would I have imagined this. Sleep? What, and miss this? Are you kidding me? I’ll keep an eye out for errant mouse behavior with the ratings…. no worries.
Howdy all and sundry –
I’m a 42 year old `information architect’ — that would be things like taxomies, search tools, web design, social software & so on. Right now I’m working for an insurance company, which has been a nice break from the roller coaster that the software industry has been since 2000, and a frustrating lesson in how few people in business really `get’ information tools (get as in The Mythical Man-Month, one of the best books ever written on managing complexity), especially outside the software industry!
But enough shop talk. I have a wonderful family with two little girls (10 mos and 4.5 years) and live near San Francisco. I was pretty politically active and fairly `radical’ in the 80s, highly disillusioned about electoral politics in the 90s, horrified and depressed in 2002, then found Dean (& Clark) & blogs – salvation! Well, sortof.
Not sure what to call myself now, politically. At various times I identify as liberal, radical, progressive, radical center. Like my religious beliefs (which you can see me going on about in the comments on this, a very boomanish (ie, thoughtful) dkos diary) pretty eclectic I guess.
I am not `leaving’ dkos, in part because it will still support discussions like the above. And with dkosopedia, the upcoming and independently organized (i.e. Markos endorses but does not run it) conference in 2006, and some of the folk who have stuck around, plus the beginnings of serious discussion of the real issues which Armando is working admirably hard to foster — in spite of himself, as it were — I think there is a good deal of hope for that place yet. Actually, I am suppressing an urge to go into a very qualified defense of Markos himself – not his refusal to really apologize or his initial remarks, but among other things his overall record for supporting a broad set of voices, which I think, despite his very real blind spots, stacks up pretty well against other ‘major player’ bloggers. But I won’t do that right now, because I don’t want to get flamed. (Ooops, oh,… crap. Umm, how bout you save your flames for my diary on the subject where I can present a more nuanced view? Thanks.)
My perspective on all this is partly influenced by A Group is its own Worst Enemy by Shirky, which addresses the history of large online political communities and how they inevitably descend into contentious `constitutional crises’ which require them to adopt more structure – formal, informal, or both – to move forward.
I don’t hold it against anyone who needs to step away, obviously. And I take the trigger issues for the current crisis very seriously, lest anyone wonder.
I love the slower pace and higher tolerance for complicated discussions here, and look forward to getting to know y’all. My interests other than politics and blogs include science, education, astronomy, optics, hiking, fine teas, red wine, wacky art & music, and parsing Stirling Newberry’s oeuvre.
Cheers,
actually, I’ll admit that it’s pretty hard to classify Stirling as ‘other than politics and blogs’ 8^)
but he does get into all manner of broader cultural & economic questions from time to time…
I’ll try to post a diary on Self Organizing Systems (SOS) over the weekend – it’s my pet subject and maybe relevant to the points you raise.
as in complexity theory?
Not really, but – it’s a personal view comparing organic leaderless systems such as flocks and shoals (that use simple sets of neighbour relationship rules to produce rich/complex behaviour patterns) with the instant empowerment brought by communications technologies.
Ah, like Craig Reynold’s Boids?
I’ll have to Google that…
YES!
De boids was one early AI inspiration for me – I had forgotten the name. My thoughts though, take various sources into the mix.
Cool. I’ll look forward to your diary. If you post it this weekend I’ll even have a chance to comment (with references and everything!)
Of course that may be a vote for doing it during the week. (laughing)
Just look at this thread! The Welcome Wagon is sure glad you’re here, just having solid tech support in the room makes me feel better.
Well, it looks like I am somewhat of an oldtimer. Ha ha. Been here 3 days? Maybe 4.
I love the slower pace and the opportunity to really read a diary, not just skim the first paragraph, but really dig into it and digest it before it leaves the front page.
Here’s an example. I read MilitaryTracy’s poignant diary about her uncle’s suicide. Last count it had received 44 comments here on BooMan and only 7 on dkos.
Same with Lapin’s diary on a Christian long-distance provider that is being promoted in churches and with sales calls where they slam AT&T, Verizon etc. for promoting the gay agenda. If you haven’t read it, do. It has some awfully funny recorded phone calls.
Here on BooMan it received I think 22 comments compared to 1 on dkos.
I like the relaxed pace and the knowledge that you are not going to get your head handed to you on a platter if you disagree with someone. I’m hooked.
It’s been good to see you all over the place in here lately. And 4 days definately makes you an oldtimer – I think you should join the Welcome Wagon, and hang out in here to say ‘hi’ to anyone who pops up to introduce themselves. What do you think?
Say would you want to sign up for a welcome diary segment, if so see the link above…in diary, welcome wagon meetup and I am too lazy to go and get the link. But Boomers we need some more volunteers so please sign up.
I’m game….that seems fun. So, I go to the referenced diary and sign up?
Awesome! (boy do I show my age with that one!) I was crossing my fingers hoping you would. I always love your comment. š
I use that expression all the time. If it makes me seem your age (early 20’s?) then I’ll continue. Now, if I said groovy….
you guessed it! 25 š my husband says groovy all the time.
You married a 50 year old hippie? Or Greg Brady.
Ha! Nah he’s 28, he says that he’s more of a “Greg Brady” but hotter. š
and now, for the first time in days, the welcome diaries have slowed down… kudos for your willingness Second Nature – but there might not be much to do.
Although I have visited it often enough from Kos. I am not a pie person; I have not “left” Kos, what I have done is added a new progressive site to my list of must-reads.
Uh, what do you want to know? Usually when I am introducing myself to a bunch of strangers I say: Hi my name is Andy, and I am an alcoholic.
I guess here I would say: Hi, my name is Andy, and I am a proud progressive. I been kept a progressive in Texas by the grace of a Higher Power and a whole bunch of really cool progressives, dems and liberals online and for that I’m grateful.
So what do you want to know? I’m a brand new daddy, the new love of my life is three weeks old and she is so beautiful it hurts. I’m a straight, white male who wants his mother, wife and daughter to earn the same dollar for the same labor as any male would get. I want my gay friends to have the same type of beautiful, culturally recognized marriage that I do. When I go to a trade show for my industry I am ashamed there are so few black and brown faces there. Because I am a Wiccan I think God is a woman and nature is sacred.
That sounds entirely too politically correct, so let me toss in that I have occasionally referred to women as chicks.
And right now my wife needs a break, so I am off to help with the baby.
Well congrats on your new little one and welcome to the Booman tribune! Kudos to you for helping Mom out. I know I speak for all us when I say I hope to see you around!
Hey andyt, welcome to the pond of frogness.
There are a number of wiccans here as you will see if you skim the old diaries.
And congratulations on the baby!
What I wouldn’t give to hold that baby girl and just smell her head! Sorry. I’m a baby-head smeller from way back.
I know exactly what you mean! I still smell my son’s head. I thought I was weird for that. Glad to know I am not alone in that department as well. š
I have to eat dinner really quick, we try to sit down as family and as it I am late! š
finally got the html fixed (thanks zander!)
gimme some time…i will get better at this i promise!
Enjoy dinner.
mmmm pizza I am back! š thanks for all of the help Zander, I really do appreciate it!
You rock!!
I’m familiar with some of you from dKos, and I’ve visited here from time to time. I expect to be a regular now. I will probably continue visiting dKos, but I expect to be very selective about engaging in conversations there. Civility is lacking under the Lord of the Pies.
I’m a long-time activist and grew up in a political family. JFK stepped on me when I was 11 years old (he was leaving an elevator at the NM Democratic convention in 1960; I attended the convention with father and uncle). JFK didn’t apologize, but he got my undying allegiance.
I’ve generally been a Democrat, but my passions focus more on issues than party. There are some Dems I cannot support, and there are times I cannot support the party.
I was married to a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war. From the time my daughter was 4, I was a single mother. I have always supported myself, and always done a sizable amount of volunteer work. My parents didn’t know quite what to do with their shy, bookish middle child in the summers, and signed me up for stints at local museums, etc., so I’d have to get my nose out of a book and interact with people.
Enough about me. Thanks for being here!
Welcome to the Boo! i recongize your handle from Dkos. Glad to hear that you will be hopping and splashing in the pond with us!
Glad to know that I wasn’t the only child in existence that was forced outdoors and deal with the populace, I was also quie bookish and shy. š
quie = quiet
I hate typos, I have had too many today. Felt I should atone. š
No problem about the typo. Made me feel I belong here š
Hi there, and welcome. I’m glad you’ve found your way over here – you can never have too much civility or too many bibliophiles.
Have fun finding some of your old favorites – there’s quite a few familiar names around here.
Hi.
I’ve been lurking here for a while, but the size and tenor of dkos prompted me to register. And, so, here I am …
I’m Kara. I live in Cumberland Co., PA. I’m mama to two – my son will be 5 and my daughter will be 2, both this month. I am a union member in the SSHE, where I teach human communication; my research has emphasis in identity, symbolic interactionism, and gender.
I have been politically interested and aware for as long as I can remember. We had a family birthday party once, when I was quite younger, during the DNC. The candles were already lit when someone announced that Mario Cuomo was about to start his speech. We blew out the candles, watched the speech, and then started over.
I’m glad to be here, and not just for the spell check ; )
loved you on DK, look forward to more great things here on Boo.
Laura
aka getmeoutofdixie
Welcome. I’m a relative newbie here myself – I wandered over here on Monday for a little peace and quiet (and, you know, to prevent myself from banging my head on something). It’s uh, … been an interesting week, but things seem to be going really smoothly over here.
Come on in, pull up a chair… and if you feel up to it, hop right in. Your background in symbolic interactionism and gender will no doubt lend a lot to some of the conversations that are taking place. There is some great calm discussion going on about what just happened – or, if you’re completely pied out, all of the other great stuff you would expect from Booman at any other time.
Enjoy.
As a New Yorker myself, I’d like to say that Mario Cuomo is one of my favorite fellow New Yorkers. Absolutely beautiful man, and definitely worth putting the birthday party on pause for.
What does SSHE stand for?
SSHE – State System of Higher Ed
Although…you have to admit it. The spell-check rocks! (when I remember to use it that is) I am a relative newbie here myself, so welcome to the pond! Hope to see around.
Hope to see you around…
Yeah let’s not forget the preview option shall we? š
Oh wow! Thanks for posting that. Was just doing a search for all of those. How is it you guys are reading my mind today?
heheheh. Thx for helping out Cake and Zander, this is just as much your site as ours. LOL, like it’s my site. To use the words of too many washed-up cabinet members in D.C. “I serve at the pleasure of the President”
together. It was fun to flip through them. Ah, and into the annals we go…
Man Eegee – I noticed that on Monday, you described yourself as a perpetual lurker who may not be known ‘from pond scum’. Can I take this to mean that I’m not the only one around here who’s completely lost it this week?
because I wasn’t confident enough in my grasp of the topics. I found myself reading constantly and saying “yeah, I agree with that”, or “WTF!?!”. I read at DKos for close to a year before even registering. I caught BooMan’s diary over there announcing the launch of this site and decided to sign up. At that moment, I saw the power of the Scoop software come alive and was hooked. It was several weeks before I floated my first diary here on a local immigration issue. Susanhu encouraged me to keep them coming and I took her up on that. (she probably regrets the nudge now) š
If you’ve lost it, then you’re in good company; because I’m sooooo loopy today.
Loopy doesn’t even begin to cover where I’m coming from…
June 6, 2005 – June 10, 2005
Caution to the Wind Week !!!
(or something like that – I mean it’s not like we can blame the water, or anything)
I want your opinion on something. I have been travelling around the diaries lately and I am coming upon some very interesting profanity as members are discussing the debacle at DK and relating either what they have said or what others have said. So in essense we keep getting these drifts of not so pleasant conversation over here that is getting a little uncomfortable for me.
I avoided the troublesome diaries at DK because I do not care to even read that type of comment and now I see it frequently here.
Frankly I wanted to give them all a chance to get over it but the rehash with all attandant language keeps going on here and it is giving a different feel to this place that I am not entirely comfortable with.
What are your thoughts?
I have come across a few spats here and there. I have found the 2-warning to be effective. If it continues, then I post a comment saying, Warning. And then ask nicely if they’ll cool it down abit. I really hate to be a police officer but at the same time I don’t want this place to become a Fight Club ring either. I hesitate to put a spotlight on this, but see an example of my tactic here.
Well really I am speaking of the quoting of comments over there at DK of an unsavory nature which I just cannot put here to show you, but dealing with gentelia of both sexes. That is what I am speaking about. I am not saying people are fighting, I am saying do we want to keep hearing all this low level profanity, on this site of spirit and love.
to BooMan on that one. I’m not a big fan of the posting of comments from the other sites (DKos or anywhere). I don’t think it’s productive to hash out comment threads here that happened elsewhere–whether they are explicit or not.
Well, we all have different levels of comfort with profanity. When I am angry or really frustrated I can be very comfortable with my own profanity. And I can be plenty profane in those instances. Normally I try not to use it because I know it is offensive to some.
I have read a lot around in the diaries myself today, mostly because we have had such great help on the welcome diaries. . .thanks welcome & 4 patrol! I have seen nothing here that comes close to what I saw on a daily basis at the place across the street. So I guess I may be a bit desensitized. Maybe Diane you could send me a couple of for instances in IM and then I would have a better underestanding.
I frankly am usually more upset with abusive, dismissive, terms more than actual swear words. So I guess I need more information.
It is a little tough also sense I am a very “energy sensitive” person. . .meaning I feel the energy intent in words as much as what the words mean. So I pick up on great hostility in others words that just reading the words may not show that so much. Did I lose you all there? Sorry about that
Direct me somewhere to see what is bothering you, okay?
I am so impressed by the diversity here – the richness of the posts, the comments. It’s so wonderful … a little overwhelming too, if I’m honest. There’s a lot of big thinkers at BT!
Thanks again everyone, for being so welcoming. It is truly appreciated. And, for those personally welcoming everyone in these posts – I don’t know how you’re doing it (keeping awake for starters) because there are so many diaries and so many comments. Your inspiring, really.
On behalf of all our Pond Greeters, thanks for the wonderful compliments! The atomosphere is infectious here. Lots of good, happy vibes flowing all around the place.
The Pond is quite roomy, so stretch your legs, get comfy, and peruse all of the fantastic diaries that Booman Tribune has to offer. I have to tell you, I have been her e since I woke up this morning at 9:30!
I haven’t been able to tear myself away either.
I don’t doubt it! Hope you get some sleep soon – you don’t want to strain your eyeballs!!
I’ve been perusing a lot, commenting here and there, getting comfortable giving out 4s, learning TONS. Good stuff all around.
I will eventually tear myself away, but not until there’s drool on the keyboard from where I passed out. š
Was getting my main news over at DK for a year.
Read all the pie fight mess.
Thought a better door was being opened over here.
So I stepped out of the lurker closet.
My eyes really aren’t adjusted to the warm light yet.
So I’ll mumble a little about myself.
I act 25.
So please don’t tell my Liver that it’s really 42.
I’m a musician.
That means my lovely girlfriend, Mary Grace, works.
‘Shindig!’ is tatooed on my arm.
She was my best friend for 12 human years.
Mary Grace and I have a walking 18 month old doll.
Her name is Cash.
After Johnny.
Well come right on in and sit down, put your feet on that log over here, and enjoy the ambience. š I too was lurker on Dkos, but coming over here has been quite an enlightening experience I must say. The people here are truly much different “than the site which cannot be named”. š
I won’t say nothing to your liver if you won’t say anything to mine? Deal?
Welcome to the Pond!
I won’t say nothing to your liver if you won’t say anything to mine? Deal?
I’ll drink to that.
ribbet.
Hi, Sweet Boo-sters,
Wow, what a day. I wrote my first diary and spent the rest of the day reading and answering and giving out 4’s. There are now 135 comments on that diary and not a mean and nasty remark among them. It was thrilling to watch smart and sensitive people take my thought and run with it. I learned stuff. I met people. I laughed. There was at least one comment that brought tears to my eyes. I wore myself out! At some point I just ran out of steam to respond to everybody, and I feel bad about that. Everybody deserves a response. On the other hand, there came a point when I realized they didn’t all have to hear from me–other people were perfectly capable of chiming in, and did. It was sort of like watching a fine machine kick into gear and run itself.
I don’t know how you guys are doing it, but I suppose playing team tag helps?
The teamwork is key. This pace for the site has only been going for a couple of days, it was much slower before, so things are different (and great!). To be honest, I’m not really sure where someone like me fits into all this. Before Monday, I was a commenter and diarist just like you. I would float a diary once a week, if that. Not sure if that’s changed at all, in fact I hope it doesn’t. I guess some of us just took ownership of being the welcoming committee and ran with it. BooMan has been a great conductor for this symphony. I play the saxophone so not too sure if I’m on the right stage. š
I’ve always loved the saxophone. Play on!
I assume we’ll all be quitting our regular jobs and doing nothing but talking to each other full time? lol
You’re diary is great! I’ve been trying to get through all of the comments for .. well.. a while now. I seem to be very easily distracted in here.
I was blown away by the pace and the tone over there – so calm and measured – great job!
Me, too, Zander. And thank you!
Well you’ve gone and done it and stretched this diary as wide as possible and now, I have to scroll back and forth to read a comment. Just kidding lol.
I really do hate it when these threads get so stretched, my moniter is small.
So my sage advice to you all helper and greeters and newbies, consider posting a new comment rather then a reply when a thread widens.
So I guess it’s near time to throw up another diary and I would guess that its Shirls turn.
She has been taking it easy just posting comments, but now back to work if you are able Shirl. Or do you want Oui to do it when he comes on. He will be the night tender in any case.
Great job cake and zander and man and all. You gave me a chance to go around and read some dairies and that was fun for a change.
Refreshments are on the buffet table, help yourself.
As always any tips on diary formatting is greatly appreciated. š I think we all got carried away tonight…sorry.
carried away. <sheepish> sorry ’bout that.
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23:00PDT Latest News ◊ interview Dutch radio –
Aruba spokesman Ruben Trappenberg said news in US media CNN, NBC, AP is not correct. The three men and the two hotel security guards are in protective custody. No confession yet.
ORANJESTAD, Aruba – One of three young men who took an Alabama high school student to the beach during her class trip to Aruba confessed he killed her, police say.
Deputy Police Commissioner Gerold Dompig told The Associated Press that the man was leading police late Friday to the scene of the crime.
AP Photo: An unidentifiedfriend of Natalee Holloway
signs a 'wall of hope'
erected for the missing...
PS Good Morning Everyone.
WELCOME: Make Yourself Known @BooTrib aka lost treasure of dKos
oops. Started to post on a previous thread, but got interrupted. I am a 49 yo female, just got my Ph.D. in epidemiology last year. Started working on a research project at the VA hospital here in Cleveland 6 months ago.
I am a mother of two sons, ages 14 and 16. Divorced a number of years ago and remarried just a few weeks ago (hence, my missing the Pie wars–I was on my honeymoon!!)
I wandered over here a few weeks ago when I was reading about the Pie Wars on kos and wanted to find out more about what was going on. I have no plans to leave there, but I have been enjoying being here as well.
I was born and raised in Ann Arbor, MI…not a literal hippie…I was too young to participate, but certainly old enough to know and have a sense of what was happening. My mother was very active in women’s rights activities and the peace movement.
All of this, of course has influenced me. But back when the “L” word was bandied about as a bad word, I used to tell people, “I am big L, little l, big D, little d liberal democrat…and proud of it”. I still am. In spite of the occasional infighting I am proud to be a Democrat.
My new husband and I got active in politics for the first time last year. We held several fund raisers and raised a modest amount of money. We participated in the Fahrenheit 9/11 house party while on vacation, and from there we held several house parties of our own.
My biggest worry at the moment (among all of the worries out there) is that there will be renewal of the draft. My oldest son is 16 (soon to be 17) and I fear very much for him.
As a more personal aside, since the divorce and remarriage, I have been working hard to keep the boys relatively unscathed. Impossible to do, but you always try. My oldest, as a teenager and quite reserved was the most difficult to read, because I couldn’t tell whether he was just being a regular teen or whether he was having issues about the divorce. (he is close to and talks to my niece and she repeatedly assured me he was fine).
At any rate, that was all background. Tuesday night my son was here and we asked him to pick a movie that we could watch as a family. He picked Hotel Rwanda. He had seen it at school and wanted to watch it again. We sat here in utter amazement as this young man…my son!!…explained and described the civil war between the Hutus and Tutsis…from the origins of the Belgian takeover through to the UN resolutions on the issue at the time.
There is hope for future generations. And thus, I remain, forever…hopeful.