John, it's good to see you!
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
WindSparrow - Oct 18, 2016 5:30:18 am PDT #2656 of 3094
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Glamcookie - Oct 18, 2016 5:39:29 am PDT #2657 of 3094
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Aims! Shane is at an IB school this year and we LOVE it so much!
Volans - Oct 18, 2016 6:53:53 am PDT #2658 of 3094
move out and draw fire
I've tried to poke in now and again, but I guess I've been lurkery because it's hard to cannonball into the middle of a discussion.
#BoozAllenisDeadtoMe and I'm my own boss now, with one employee other than me but several contracts and a few subject matter experts I pull in from time to time. Despite that change, I'm still running the same project that I took from a startup inside the government to a big deal; we got namechecked in the White House' Best in Class list this year and were shortlisted for SXSW. (I don't think we got in, but another panel I'm supporting did, so now I'm trying to find a place to stay in Austin during SXSW).
Still married, still have one precocious-yet-often-dumbass son, who is somehow 11 and in 6th grade. Still haven't seen Hamilton.
Miss you guys - it's good to see you.
Tom Scola - Oct 18, 2016 6:57:47 am PDT #2659 of 3094
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I'm my own boss now, with one employee other than me but several contracts and a few subject matter experts I pull in from time to time.
So you're literally Sherlock Holmes now?
Steph L. - Oct 18, 2016 6:59:42 am PDT #2660 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
So you're literally Sherlock Holmes now?
One of us was gonna be, sooner or later.
Volans - Oct 18, 2016 7:18:17 am PDT #2661 of 3094
move out and draw fire
I'd rather be Mycroft, but sure. Now I need to inform Jason I'll be calling him "Watson" from here on out.
Jessica - Oct 18, 2016 7:28:52 am PDT #2662 of 3094
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I LOVE DELURKING THREAD MONTH.
That is all.
Calli - Oct 18, 2016 7:47:45 am PDT #2663 of 3094
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Have fun in Austin, Raq!
Aims - Oct 18, 2016 7:56:34 am PDT #2664 of 3094
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aims! Shane is at an IB school this year and we LOVE it so much!
I am loving every little thing about it.
Most importantly, the lack of multiple behavioral issues. I didn't fancy getting sliced open and punched in the face anymore.
Barb - Oct 18, 2016 7:58:56 am PDT #2665 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
::waves at everyone::
So good to see alllllllla the pixels, man. I'd forgotten how much I missed this place.
I did forget a couple of things—both of the Rugrats are in college now. (I don't even know how that happened.) The Snark is likely going to be a photography major (although he hasn't confessed that yet, at least, not to me) and the Diva is in Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount as an animation major.
And in the realm of my writing, I did finally have my first non-YA/women's fiction short story published in the Bouchercon anthology for this year. It's on its surface a mystery/crime story, but it is, in actuality, the origin story for the paranormal/horror thriller I've been working on.
So-- yeah.