She's the smart one.
She took the vaccine & escaped this lunacy.

I've known a couple dozen vets over the years.
Some fought, some just served, but to a man (or a couple of women too) they have something in common with my youngest, who was in the Naval Reserve.
They don't want to talk about it.
Go to extraordinary lengths to avoid doing so.

My best and only remaining besty male friend served on the A-Gang aboard the USS Frederick LST hull# 1184 during the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.
Over more than 5 decades that's still about all I know about his 4 years afloat, other than his A-Gang used to sell access to unlimited-length hot showers under the cooling outflow from the water desalination plant - a very high demand item on a tank landing transport in the South China Sea.

I'm still here!
Sometimes I get so busy with whatnot that I don't get to Mingle for a day or two, hihi.
Don't ask me what I've been doing, I wouldn't be able to tell, hihi. Just silly li'l things.

OT -------------
Me's thinking.... where's the sun?!?!
My solar lights start to fade and if I don't get any sunlight soon, so will I, hihi.

arrrrrrrg.. thar she is!

kk.. won't ask..

yuppers.. mind you.. she took her straight-jacket with her..




okay so.. how the heck did my query set off this rant?
*Zee's questioning if ol'coots straight jacket's on too tight and cutting off his brain circulation*

why I can't send a PM to the ol'coot!

Sounds like his filters may eliminate you at the gate.

wonders what soufie's been up to

Mail settings were female, 150 miles, and 55-75.
I changed them to anybody, any distance, & 30-100 so we'll Zee how it goes.

Are PMs different than Mail here?
I haven't noticed a direct message function other than what they call "Mail".

What set me off?
Who do you think?
The resident eternal burning flame of hating, of course.
I keep trying to gently drag him out of that Faux sNooze silo he lives in but apparently he has sucker arms like an octopus when it comes to clinging to unreality.

a PM IS mail.. silly coot

my magic wand on that EX-resident seems to have.. POOF *the debbie downer's gondee like the wind* yer welcome

Wink, wink, we old admins still have a few tricks ;-)

Just so y'all know anytime your mail settings is blocking someone. All you have to do is send them a message a message first if their settings allow it, and you can keep your settings as you wish without changing them..

So once you connect with someone through email you can put your settings back as you want...

Once you have sent emails back n forth, they will not be blocked. Well unless you try to send them more then 5 emails without them responding then it will block you till they have replied..

Thinking.... it was time for the Trash to go out..

I'm thinking I'm so happy it was garbage pick up today

Don't like that 5-in-a-row rule.
How's a fella suppose to stalk a girl with less than 6 consecutive messages?

Seriously, it does get in the way sometimes when coupled with the 500 character limit per post - because, as I've mentioned, 1 word will never do when I can write a novelette.

Particularly when there are language barriers & you have to explain half the shizzle yer saying to someone yer jist startin' out with.

One complete thought for me can run several hundred words - & that's when I'm being succinct.

Good.
"Old Trick" my FishingMan profile out of lockdown while yer at it, please.


Too thick?
Maybe shoulda just went for the winky emoji.

WoW! Soufie, that was kwik!

FishingMan is FRREEEEEEEE!
He better flee the country before pac-man gobbles him up again.

The 5-in-a-row was put in just for that problem.. to keep scammers away..

As far as the 500 characters that was put in later... And yes it is a issues for those of us that seem to write a book in emails..

I have found out I do paragraphs instead now so if I get the code that my message is too long.. I just copy so many paragraphs from the bottom delete send then paste and copy following the same way till I can send it all..

Until you hit the 5 post limit, but yeah, learned that trick right away.

I used to write 2,000-3,000 word articles filled with linkys and such, that often took me 8 hours or more of research to compile.
Then, right when I was about to upload the blessed thing, I'd go to make some little spelling correction and accidentally delete the entire article with no hope of recovery in the posting box.
Those things don't automatically back you up every few minutes.

So dayum frustrating to lose so much time and effort that often I didn't even try to do it all over again.
Now I operate by writing the entire article in Word or notepad, which at least warn me if I accidentally try to delete it.
Still screw up from time to time but far less often & it really reduces my frustration levels.

It feels really strange to be posting in a forum in the 1st person.
For a quarter century I scrupulously posted in the 3rd person to maintain my non-bias neutrality in the articles I would post.

It's tricky but I did it for so long that referring to myself as "he"/"him"/"his" or "HYATT™'s" became almost automatic.
In here I have to unlearn that & still reflexively type in the 3rd person & have to correct it to "I" or "me".

Don't let anyone try to fool ya, it takes a special skill to write in the third person when discussing your own opinions and such.
The advantage is you can go back and read it as A 1st person & get the same "feel" for it as your intended audience will experience.

It REALLY helped me see unintended bias that would creep in from time to time and change the article up a little to eradicate any hint of a personal bias in the viewpoint I was trying to get across using "proofs", such as they were.

When opinions are like azzhools (everybody has one) making a reputation as an honest opinion writer takes a long time and a lot of very hard work to get to a point where your reading public doesn't just dismiss whatever you say because they think yer just looking at something from a "homer" PoV - & doubly so when you are writing about the NFL where it's ALL "opinion" and very rarely do any "absolutely indisputable truths" exist.