Topic: The re-introduction thread (Read 79741 times)

Welu · « **Reply #400 on:** 23 Aug 2018, 14:59 »

Neko!

I know we're both on Facebook but any chance to use a RASSLER hug gif.

nekowafer · « **Reply #401 on:** 24 Aug 2018, 03:08 »

Welu! Rasslin'! <3

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #402 on:** 25 Nov 2018, 19:53 »

Oh hey

I'm still here, still queer, and I still don't want any more bears.
Been a couple years since I've been on this seeing as I added so many of y'all on facebook, but hey.
Feels good to be back.

Welu · « **Reply #403 on:** 26 Nov 2018, 07:38 »

Great to see you here! <3

Patrick · « **Reply #404 on:** 20 Dec 2018, 05:16 »

Quote from: Thrillho on 03 Nov 2017, 02:21

PATRICK!

Now that is a birthday present.

Holy hell, I had to hover over your blog link in order to realize who you were. The fuck? They made you a mod? Must have been desperate

Jokes aside, it's bloody good to see you, you fart of a man.

My internet browsing habits have changed pretty dramatically, as you can tell.

Akima · « **Reply #405 on:** 28 Dec 2018, 00:50 »

Patrick! Great to see you! How's the music going?

Grognard · « **Reply #406 on:** 05 Mar 2019, 21:18 »

Hello folks.

I'm baaa-ack.

Case · « **Reply #407 on:** 06 Mar 2019, 03:37 »

Hey Grognard & welcome back! I was starting to wonder ... what gives?

jwhouk · « **Reply #408 on:** 06 Mar 2019, 04:36 »

GROG! Welcome back!

Grognard · « **Reply #409 on:** 06 Mar 2019, 18:16 »

what gave? mostly just alot of life.
When I returned from vacation, work life struck back with a vengence.
from August until January my team fielded about 140% of our contracted work load.
all while being at half strength in Technicians. Turnover was terrible.
during that time I was either commuting or at work about 12-14 hours a day.

other than a odd hour of videogaming or vegging to YT, I've had nigh zero social life.

But in late January, I was able to convince our CEO to allow thru Annual Reviews and maximum rate pay raises.
So guys who were thinking of leaving stayed. And I also managed to recruit some lower tier, but technically savvy help. The last day of January, we had 2100 tickets in queue w/8 Techs. Today, we have 390 tickets and 13 Techs.

But it has been a nasty hard slog.

cybersmurf · « **Reply #410 on:** 07 Mar 2019, 02:48 »

Life, uh, finds a way.

Grognard · « **Reply #411 on:** 07 Mar 2019, 17:14 »

This is true.
I just found out I'm going to be a grandpa.

but I'm too young!

cybersmurf · « **Reply #412 on:** 07 Mar 2019, 22:36 »

Congratulations,... Gramps!

SeaWoodStage · « **Reply #413 on:** 01 Apr 2019, 14:03 »

Hi guys! I've been reading since 2003, and have often been discombulated by the forum discussions in recent years. "Oh, I'll only contribute when I really have something to say," I often thought to myself. Hahaha, that worked out extremely well.

Thrillho · « **Reply #414 on:** 02 Apr 2019, 14:22 »

People's thoughts are valid, including yours.

Patrick · « **Reply #415 on:** 08 Aug 2019, 23:06 »

Quote from: Akima on 28 Dec 2018, 00:50

Patrick! Great to see you! How's the music going?

i am so bad at checking unread replies. music's going okay, just slowly until i start getting paid from my new job. hard to make it to practice when you're short on money for everything lmao

Alex C · « **Reply #416 on:** 23 Aug 2019, 22:26 »

hi patrick

Patrick · « **Reply #417 on:** 29 Oct 2019, 02:46 »

Quote from: Alex C on 23 Aug 2019, 22:26

hi patrick

hi alex! good to see you.

like i said. bad at checking back. seems the pace of these forums has slowed somewhat. i'm... okay with that haha.

dps · « **Reply #418 on:** 13 Feb 2020, 21:49 »

Hi all. Used to post here some though I was never a heavy poster. I just checked my last post was in March 2015. Don't know why I quit posting, 'cause I still read the comic regularly. Don't know how much I'll post now. We'll see how it goes.

hedgie · « **Reply #419 on:** 05 Mar 2021, 11:42 »

Welcome back. I do remember you, and didn't realise that it has been so long.

ankhtahr · « **Reply #420 on:** 21 Mar 2021, 19:19 »

Hey everyone,

I still exist. Somehow. A lot has been happening.

I don't even know where to begin, or where I left off. I don't know why I stopped visiting here, but I've never forgotten you people.

So yeah. In the meantime I've dropped out of the other university, started an apprenticeship in software development (German 'Ausbildung Fachinformatiker (Anwendungsentwicklung)'), finished said apprenticeship, and have started working as a web developer in January at the place where I did the apprenticeship.

There's been a lot of other stuff as well. I go by they/them pronouns now, among my closest friends at least, but am currently still questioning my gender identity. In my professional life I haven't mentioned any of this.

Still, all in all I've been pretty fine.

How is everyone? Anyone still remember me?

— ankh

Gnabberwocky · « **Reply #421 on:** 21 Mar 2021, 20:49 »

I don't believe I've ever met you before, so hello!

sitnspin · « **Reply #422 on:** 21 Mar 2021, 21:28 »

Welcome back. I remember your avatar and looking back through post history, I vaguely remember a few interactions. I hope things are going better these days.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #423 on:** 22 Mar 2021, 04:54 »

I was just wondering how you were doing the other day. Nice to see you again!

cesium133 · « **Reply #424 on:** 22 Mar 2021, 06:28 »

Welcome back!

ankhtahr · « **Reply #425 on:** 22 Mar 2021, 17:17 »

Hey everyone,

great to see these familiar names. I definitely remember you, sitnspin, but I guess that's a bit easier for me, considering I didn't interact with people on this forum for a long time and don't have newer memories than those.

I think I was most active ca. 2012 to 2015 IIRC? Came back in 2018 for a bit. Gosh it feels like a lifetime ago. I hadn't even finished school when I started visiting.

When I came back here I was in a really dark place, and it took me a while to get better. I had a therapy group for a while, struggled a lot when deciding to finally drop out of university and start vocational education (Germany has this system of earning certified job titles through a mixture of a (badly) paid apprenticeship on 3 days of the week and 2 days of vocational school). Usually it takes 3 years, but having been to university allowed me to reduce it to 2, and good grades allowed me to reduce it even further to 1.5.

I wouldn't say I'm in a particularly good place atm, but well, with the pandemic and all, who even is. I'm definitely better though. Looking back on the last few years there's little I'd do differently, because I wouldn't have had the good times without the occasional bad ones, and I feel like that's the important bit.

Currently my main issue is stress. I've been working under extreme pressure over the last 1.5 years. Our company creates software for small to medium sized pharma companies, is way understaffed, and for some reason we took over a project related to a Covid vaccine. I'm not going to say too much about it, but I think I can mention that I've more or less single handedly written the module of our software product which one vaccine manufacturer uses for tracking public requests, but also adverse events and product quality complaints for 2 countries. It's safe to say, I hope I'll never again have to write software which is used to track potentially fatal events. That's not a responsibility I want to have.

But yeah, I think I won't say much more about this, definitely not in the Chatter subforum.

Still: overall I'm better than I was when I last visited, and I hope you're all doing well.

p.s.: Cesium, it really cheered me up to see you're still using the Gordon I've colorised for you as your avatar

cesium133 · « **Reply #426 on:** 22 Mar 2021, 18:10 »

Good to hear you're doing better.

And, yeah, I've had this avatar for a long time. I was still living in Oklahoma when I took the original picture. Moved to Wisconsin in 2015, then to Illinois, and now I'm in Canada.

sitnspin · « **Reply #427 on:** 22 Mar 2021, 19:08 »

Glad you are doing better. Hope you settle back in here

Thrillho · « **Reply #428 on:** 24 Mar 2021, 03:59 »

ANKH!

Welcome back, buddy! So great to see you. I do hope you find yourself feeling a bit at home here again. It would be nice to have your voice around the place again.

Grognard · « **Reply #429 on:** 30 Apr 2021, 21:29 »

Greetings and Salutations, denizens of the Cyber domain!

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #430 on:** 01 May 2021, 02:18 »

Whoof, more than six months since you were last here, and more than a year since you were supposed to have stopped being here (

). Where does the time go?

Nice to see you back, how's it going?

Grognard · « **Reply #431 on:** 01 May 2021, 17:25 »

lessee here...
about two weeks after my last post, I had another minor incident.
new job in Jan. 2020.
Youngest child graduated HS in May.
90% teleworked from March to March.
bought new house in June & Moved. (technical financial downsizing w/ more sq. ft.)
Sent my Princess off to college in September.
sold / closed old house on NYE.
my wife attained her Masters Degree & Family Nurse Practictioner license in March 21.
I went back to my 90 minutes each way commute in March.
*books on Audible are awesome*
Just laid the 26'x26'x6" concrete pad for a garage I'm building.
and my youngest just started a job at a nearby Theme Park.

-inject "I'm working" every other line.

that is how it is going.
Doctor says that despite general life stress, my heart and protein numbers are all great.

how about y'all?

sitnspin · « **Reply #432 on:** 01 May 2021, 21:20 »

Wow, that's a lot. Congrats.

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