[Tamaroa]

Hi all,

It's interesting that this topic just sprang up after I had just explained to a couple of friends on other sites last week, my recent and sometimes long absences from boards. There are two reasons that I am not around much if at all the last couple of years. The first is that I am registered with a number of sites at least 6 or 7 that I can think of and probably more. This is not meant to offend anyone, its just that one board is so much like another, so much so that I grow weary of trying to say something different on every board I visit. all the boards are military affiliated in one way or another and they usually have the same kind of subdivisions aabout sports and bartalk, etc. and I have friends on all of them. Most of the boards are pretty much arranged the same way so visiting one is like visiting any of the others. Some of the people even cross pollinate between boards.

As far as this board is concerned, one reason, I stopped coming was for the longest time, I had trouble logging in. I thought the board had gone belly up. I like this place, I just wore out my psycovets cap after I don't know how many years :-) just to show you. A couple months would go by and I tried again, no luck, At any rate, I received one of those blast emails a while back from patriotfiles indicating that it was still around, I tried again and no luck. Last week, I tried again and I finally got on. Maybe it was the site, maybe my computer. I don't know but it works. I've lurked a couple of times then decided to post when I saw this thread. By the way, I hope Gimpy is OK, he and I were amongst the originals, I was #9 if memory serves :-)

The second reason is quite frankly, I'm one exhausted puppy when I get home. I work 11 hour days and do three hour round trip commutes, I go to bed right after supper and hardly look at the PC at all. I'm up at 4:30 AM to start the cycle all over again. i'm in facility management so i'm always consolidating, moving people, dealing with labor disputes and possible strikes. I'm 63 and just don't have the patience for this as I once did, some of you old hands may remember that I was the Civil war nut that posted a lot of stuff on the site originally about Civil War units and topics I was researching as well as trying to keep current topics in the Coast Guard (my alama mater) up!.

So David, please don't take it as a sign that we're jumping ship, we'tre just getting old and tired. Now that I can get on the site, I will check it out more to see if I can contribute. That is if I can kick my wife off the computer, she is as prolific now as I once was on the darn thing. I'm lucky if I read my email once a week. That's the kind of aversion to electronics I'm dealing with now.

Just to give you an idea of the sites that I am a member of, notice I didn't say visit; they include: Mil.com, milnet.com, annoyed man.com, Trackpads.com, conservative cave.com,U.S. and World Politics Form, Ford Taurus.com,civilwartalk.com, fireboat.org, lilacpreservationproject.org, nomadicpreservationsociety.co.uk, and on and on. and of course everyone wonders why their membership is down :-) I think you just need some young blood!!

Happy New Year,

Bill aka Tamaroa