I'm lurking after having been away for about 10 years.
Tooloose Lowtec
Looking for comfort I guess. This used to be such a great place to
play.
t.
I feel like I've arrived at a party after everyone's gone home.
Yes this place used to be amazing. Smart. Irreverent. Funny as
Hell. I could sure use someplace like it. Never much liked ASH --
serious as cancer.
Tooloose
I went off NGs to make money and pursue things -- it's overrated.
Now I have lots of things, none of which prevent me from being deeply
unhappy.
Tooloose Lowtec
The flonk?
tl
Thanks Red. I don't like war zones much.
ADAF is a ghost; ASH has too many wars; ASA looked promising, but the
ASH wars have spilled over there too. Alt.slack is just way too clever
for me. alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk seems kinda cliquey. Is
there no place? Is usenet dead?
Tooloose
Thanks Red. Much appreciated.
tl
Um, thanks for the trust, but I'm using this lame google groups thing
and it doesn't show me your email -- mine is tooloos...@gmail.com
if you wanted to send one to me.
tl
..I did that then jacked it all in to be poor and virtuous. It isn't
..much better.
Apologies, my stupid fucking outlook express isn't inserting the carats and
I can't find the way to fix it right now though I used to know so fuck it,
fuck it I say.
If the pursuing is useless, then I'm off the hook there at least. Nearly 40
and my self-interested mother-in-law wants me to get a college degree so she
feels better about herself because somehow that degree increases my worth as
a human even though I won't be able to get a job with it because I'll be
nearly 50 by the time I get a master's - PLUS I'm supposed to pay for this
how? And who takes care of the kid while I do this, and who takes care of
HER kid (the one I'm cooking for while he falls apart at the seams).
Being poor and virtuous isn't great either, but it is easier in some
respects. No, I don't have the money to fix my teeth and my gums are
receding and I don't have insurance and I can't go someplace balmy and
frolic in the sand - but I also don't have to attend social functions with
stupid fucks I hate, nor do I have to be nice to people who generally suck.
Meh. I'd like enough money to not have to go to work and deal with People -
but I don't need to be Well Off... I would like to fix my teeth before they
fall out though.
EdS
> Fuck, hi!
> Good to see you posting. I'm Red, nice to meet you. Erstwhile
> ASHer looking for something less toxic.
> Tooloose joined me on alt.support.anhedonia but it's being decimated
> by ASH trolls with a grudge. All the regs have been frogged
> incessantly this week so you won't find many genuine posts there.
> It's amazing how well you can live on limited funds if you stop
> buying into the need to conform. Not sure I'd manage that with a
> little one though.
> If your teeth fall out, you can always come to the UK.
> Can you dredge up any more old ADAfers? This place used to look good.
All the ones I still know are mostly "better"... deep fried mars has a kid
and a gorgeous woman, CSB unaccounted for, johndonneundone I might be able
to get ahold of but it's spotty, and Ryannosaurus went and got married and
happy (no more sodomy for him). The rest I don't know where they went.
I'd come to the UK but I hear the food is awful, and I really do like
gardening... it's the times in between liking gardening when I don't have
the energy to weed or water that kind of kill the veggies.. Fortunately I
like squashes, and squashes like abuse.
Trying to bore kid to death ...errr, sleep... or I'd type more.
Hey EdS! Great to see you here again. What's that in your pocket?
A bitch about the dentistry, never mind the Mother-in-Law-from-Hell.
I used to have one more or less like that. She died after years of
dementia -- the best thing about the alzheimer's was that she forgot
she hated me! We got along just fine after that.
Tooloose
Red, EdS is one of the great ADAFers from back then, but it seems she
changed her 'nym.
Tooloose
I'm browsing groups with ridiculous names, but not really... I blogged for a
while, a few followed me to there, I've mostly stopped and need to back up
what I have before that site goes out of business but i keep finding shit
all for motivation... The good part about working for a printer was I used
to just print out the great or memorable threads or posts. Now I have no
printer, alas, and a seeming inability to copy n paste.
Only have access to usenet part of the week - so I am intermittent here,
didn't really expect humans to show up again.
..Red, EdS is one of the great ADAFers from back then, ..but it seems she
..changed her 'nym.
I am in the witless protection program. And too many normals know my 'nym
right now. People are purty lazy about checking, but when I first moved out
here I had people "googling" me left and right, fuckin' annoying shit! I'll
be me again some day, or at least a better 'nym. this was the best I could
do in my haze.
Ha! Yer nym leaked out.
Tooloose
The history of ADAF: not as dramatic as I would have liked. "they
barely escaped with their lives"; "thousands were maimed; several were
sirred"; "Nothing to see here, move along...
. Are you even trying?
No one was sirred, but a couple were sired. The rest were immolated. A few
were molested. All of them had sand in their hair.
I haven't tried a day in my life, not until it was two days later than I
should have started trying. That may be my problem. But don't tell me, it's
too simple.
Sometimes I try myself to sleep at night.