Um, my NBs, from both SNs, obviously (thanks to Aemon for the help, and for moondog for explaining to me that it actually DID work, despite the software denying it. ) Camillas screencaps of LastChat, thanks to her for that. The Directory, thanks to Tim for that. The Theory Post, thanks to Trebor Nadroj for that. The final shirt, thanks to nossy, Birdeye, Milla and Jonielle for that, as well as anyone who made contributions of which I'm unaware. The LastChat Users List when it went down, both on my own and in Camillas screencap. My last wotmania sonnet in tribute to it. My 20k thread. Ras' Scratchpad. My Journal on Buddy, and another drunken maudlin one from a very low point in my life I didn't then realize was about to infect wotmania, plus another that Danu seemed to like in which I tried to play damage control. Sols LDS thread, to which I never got to respond. A list of wottie couples I requested one night in Chat after becoming one of them; thanks to Amy, Sol and StarENight for that the high resolution image of the w! that's now my desktop. Some screencaps from the last Saturday in Chat, when we had 39 people at one point. I can't recall anything else right now, but don't quote me on that.

I waited for someone to come in looking for work and bolted out of my shift at 2303; made it home in time for the last 20 minutes of the laggiest Chat I've ever seen. Even my message window was messing up; kept giving me weird characters where I tried to type, and correcting typos meant remembering exactly where I screwed up the words. I somehow managed to be there for about as long before leaving for work, which meant I got Admin powers I never had the chance to abuse and got to see Pentos rapidly growing banner, but was too rushed to apologize to him for all the crap in which I played a role, or thank him for not sitebanning me when I deserved it.

How do you think I felt...? I'm still conflicted in many ways over the Transition, but if it and the community are sustained I have no complaints.

Due to the impending release of TGS and a very good point someone made about the difficulty of gaining new members via WoT if no one here contributes worthwhile things to the WoTMB BEFORE TGS, I intend to be a little more active there, though still not like when I first joined wotmania. I'm TRYING to be less active on the CMB because it's a huge time sink I can no longer afford; on the other hand, I've been here pretty much since I got home four hours ago. Be less interesting and sweet! (No, not really *hurgs* )

The main thing I miss that I didn't already is the people who haven't, or haven't yet, made the Transition. I'm hopeful that a lot of the long time Admins, as well as Mike and Pento, pop in periodically to enjoy the community with a lot less of the responsibility and aura that seemed to make that difficult at wotmania, but I don't know I'm optimistic. I miss bcondray and Nekro (not to mention some very special others) but had already been doing so. I miss the WoT focus, but may miss it less in five years or so as WoT sites start closing their doors for lack of interest.

I LOVE being able to edit email notification into my posts, and the availability of seemingly all character sets, as well as the no doubt temporary decrease in page loading time that comes with new boards. Not having to split paragraphs myself is nice, too, and previewing edits and NBs. Email notification of NBs was something I thought of but didn't suggest on the grounds that "if you really worry about it, login" but I'm glad it's coming. That's just off the top of my head.

Rafomaniacs. The Legend Continues (but without David Carradine.... )


"Default" blue, same as it ever was. I like blue. A lot.

Champagne Supernova. Not really, but it sounds cool. I'm not a graphicy person (sorry) though I've nothing against those who are so long as it doesn't take me three days to load an interesting posted article just because they think all their posts need the Numa Numa Kid at the bottom (this actually happened on another site. )

The default; I've no idea what that is. I'd love to see Bookman Old Style, and tried to change to it as soon as Mike implemented font changes, but everyone else seems to hate it, so I don't expect it.




Top.

I prefer to click. Even that can be annoying with the hypersensitivity of my new mouses wheel.

I'm cool, but suspect many will answer something like "there can never be too much graphics!" Just don't force me to load umpteen dozen of them on every page and I'll be happy.

I like it; elegant simplicity.


Thread-tease! ' /> Meh, I'm used to it, I guess....


File under possible but improbable. Obamas Audacity of Hope has some interesting impressions of his first meeting with Robert Byrd as a Senator; it's clear Byrd deeply regrets his role as a Dixiecrat, and he didn't alter his behavior or views to keep a Senate seat that's never been in jeopardy.

Places.

I didn't used to be, because my middle name is fairly uncommon--unless you're a Gentile, in which case it's downright rare. As indicated by using it here and the last year at wotmania, it's grown on me since I learned its translation, and since I've done some growing of my own. I still prefer my first name (which was my fathers) with most people, but close friends and family use the middle one, and what began as teasing in most cases I've come to accept as endearing.

Hello?!!!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I read it the night before I excitedly started first grade, and reading it twice and Huck Finn once became an annual summer tradition I kept up until graduating HS.

Some of them, not others. The guy who lives across the street built the gazebo my mom ordered a few years back, and his father has done a lot of work around here, including converting the garage into a room. The folks next door to him are new, but seem nice, and were very helpful and understanding to my mom when we lost Buddy, as well as when she was in the backyard one evening when I left for work and went over there to wait for me to leave the line and come unlock the door. I used to be closer with the folks next door when we first moved in, after walking their dogs one stoney Thanksgiving week, but less so now. The elderly couple next door to us is very nice, and one of the few in the area who share my views on religion and politics. A strong counterpoint to the neighbors on the other side who introduced themselves by swearing at Buddy for things he didn't do and inviting me to join their celebration that "we've got a good Texan in the White House!" (he's from CT, idiot.... )

I'm a homebody, so if I can't be at my place I prefer theirs. I'm a lot better with strangers than I used to be, hide my discomfort a lot better, but I still don't really LIKE it.

The friend, or the season? I'm hoping to get Maht here in winter some time soon; I think she'll enjoy it more than she did the summer.

Not really. I'm a homebody.

O...K...? *is a newb*

Yeah, not much I can give you there, since you say you won't do the only thing I really want (you are mean. ) But very welcome, always.

EDIT: I forgot how much I also like the fact I didn't have to immediately click something after submitting this or end up on the homepage, and that, as when I click notification links, I see the post rather than having to find it and then click the response to finally read it. Probably my biggest objection to nested threads was eliminated right there.