But occasionally I pop up at just the right time :cool:

and suddenly I'm the newb

Well, your "join date" is earlier than mine ;)

BTW, your sig reminds me of a quote from a book I recently re-read:

“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult --- once we truly understand and accept it --- then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Nicely put.

Yeah, Griff's sig stays in my head and helps keep me saner than I would otherwise be sometimes.

I've always liked the simple version we had in the military:

Life is hard, then you die.

That's a bit scary.:bolt:

:p:

Less simple version....

Bruce: Check in please.

Got an email from him a couple days ago. He's alive, at any rate.

Rates are good - pulse rate, respiratory rate … even if they're not quite what you'd like them to be.

Glinda ain't been around for while, I've noticed...

She's prolly whooping it up now that her asshole neighbor is gone.

Hola muchachos!

I'm at my squirellfriend's house and she has a good interweb connextion so I'm saying hi.

Got a job as a carpenter back in may. it has helped my mental health to have a job to go to and a paycheck at the end of the week even if it's just enough to cover expenses without ever getting ahead. At least I'm not falling behind.

So the Inch is now 6'-3" three inches more than me. The mm is 62" and gaining.

he's in 10th grade and she's in 7th. it seems just the other day they were tiny little knee biters. the inch ha gotten into mountain bike racing and just generally mountain biking every minute he's awake.

She's more a brainiac; "Ugh I hate math. It's so boring." 98 avg. grade

What's smarter than a counting dog? a spelling bee!

I'll try and get here more often and catch up. I miss you guys and hope everyone is doing well

6'??? holymfincow, footman! good to see you :)

corrected after rereading 6" is still way more than an Inch should be, though ;)

good to hear from you, foots

Hooray, it's footfootfoot!

Sup Feetz!!!

Hey bro

A squirrelfriend with internet, a job with a paycheck, a son you have to look up to and a daughter to audit your checkbook.

Good thing you still have us to make you feel superior. That, plus the dad jokes.


I, for one, welcome the return of our resident imperialist, if in name only! Down with the meter! Foot! Foot! Foot! Hurrah!

Foots! Yay:)

High Foot.

Funny this thread was started by someone who went AWOL long, long ago....

It's like he knew.

Be careful what you wish for. :unsure:

Hi Bruce, welcome back!

Good Morning Bruce.

Welcome back, Kotter Bruce.

I wonder how Lookout is doing these days?

Gravdigr, please check in.

TIA

It's not like Mr G to be AWOL.

Are you there, old chap?

oh he does bugger off periodically. That said though, he mentioned it's been a little rough recently. Hope he just lost track of time self-isolating at the river

They've had a lot of flooding down that way, the river may have come to him.

Still missing

I was thinking the same. It really has been a long time now :(

I've tried to reach him by email, the address I have/had is no longer in service. I don't have a phone number or any other contact information.

Grav, if you're reading this, please send up a flare. Thanks.

Shit - I hope he's ok.

Yeah, I know he goes dark occasionally but there is too much happening for this to be taken easily.

Doesn't look like anyone's missed me, but here I am. ducksnuts is still alive too if you've missed her. Anyway, having fun in level 3 restrictions. My business is in hibernation so things are pretty tight. We're having fun though, so life is pretty good.

Good to see you, Ali!

Hi Ali, how are you?

Hey, Aliantha, a webcomic I like, from your side of the Big Salty. https://crosstimecafe.com/viewforum.php?f=30 The artist's site may be offkilter and offline just now (he's a doctor, not a programmer) -- Doc Rat contains a lot of general-practice Australian medical humour. That link is an index of recent strips -- got huge brushfires and the virus of the year, one after the other! Like, it's current events.

And you may see me posting here and there, in that Crosstime Café, though mostly in other of its fora nowadays.

I hope UT is okay and I wish he'd come back. :(

Oh, I don't know that he'd want to. Tw has made DanaC a surrogate for UT and UT might like that. Keep a lookout for a UT sockpuppet.

I hadn't realised he'd gone - I just assumed I hadn't seen him

Overfrog has a certain ring to it.... I miss UT, I've read the arguments in the politics forum that caused him to back off and I'm sorry it made him leave the lighter side of the Cellar too. :(

If you want Undertoad to come back, you have to sing the Sweet Polly Purebred song. Just substitute "Undertoad" for "Underdog." You can do it; but, you don't have to do it...it's up to you. Remember; though, it's "Undertoad."

aw.... look, noboxes misses him too. Now he needs to find someone else's pigtails to pull and dip in the ink well. Whether he comes back or not, I'm grateful that UT has the class and generosity to keep hosting the forum. Feel free to bring back the tip jar any time, Ute, I'll be happy to contribute

A week without Bruce is like, uh, a week without Bruce.
I hope he is just taking one of his regular sabbaticals.

It's been 5 days; but, I suppose that can seem like a week when you're in love.:luv:

wtf is happening here, is UT still not posting ??

this is a suck

Yeah, there was some kind of disagreement over 'censorship' if I understand the situation correctly and UR decided to retire from the Cellar, which is, as you point out, a suck

He couldn't have been very important, you already forgot his name. :p:

ack - see thats what happens when you type in a hurry and are distracted by how cute your dog is

I got an email from Bruce yesterday.

I though I'd made sure this could never be taken seriously, back in 2007, remember, anyone? As a serious, "not joking" subject, this is s t u p i d

For it to be related to an interaction with a part-time troll seems nonsensical. Maybe he just needs a break.

Have you tried giving him a piece of your Kit Kat bar?

I miss Elspode.