fisha, I’ll just echo you with Beaucarnea, being a wonderful person who always amazes me with putting exactly in words what my tentative Net self never is capable of. As in her above post; Gracious, including, and perfectly voiced. She’s just a Peach, all said, and a muy smart one to boot. It’s wonderful to see/read another person’s words, and feel that kind of solid kinship.
When I read these forums, I really think of the typing as being from real people with feelings, and carefully consider what people say before I respond,(except when I’m a WiseAss, but that’s usually with politics). I’m older in years, so didn’t grow up with the Nets being a yammer-fest, still view the written word as carefully considered.
Wondering: is the carefully considered aspect of it a thing of the past? And, does that have an effect on thinking of on-line folks as “friends”?
. Listen- my car is imported and my beer is domestic. I have stainless steel appliances, I have never seen an episode of Lost, I come from artistic geniuses and I can’t draw a stick figure. I commit misguided social activisms like avoiding imported exotic produce, and Wal-mart and I’ve been boycotting the comics page for years (until Calvin and Hobbs or The Far Side returns). In early Spring I carry cold bees to flowers, I spend Summer molesting my vegetable plants, Fall finds me in mourning from the moment the first starlings flock, and come Winter I do nothing more than follow the sunbeam around and lie about on the floor. And fisha, forgive me, but after 30+ years of keeping hobby aquariums, I do not have a marine tank, or even a brackish one. I have orandas: a couple of bubble jockies who spend the majority of their day bumping into the clear wall of the tank. (d’oh!) I’m a hack- I truly am.
