> > Do you sometimes miss a reply to a post on this forum? I always double check. First I look at the posts where they are grouped by threads. Then I punch "recent messages" and check again. If someone replies to an old post, you can overlook it, if you don't look under recent messages. I have found replies to stuff I posted days, even weeks, ago.
> > If you check in every day, "recent messages" may be all you need.
> > Howard
>
> That's my system. :-)
>
> Don "Going away for a week is dreadful, though" Monkey

Erm... Oh dear. And what exactly can you say, Don, to a so-called "friend" such as I who merrily goes away for MORE THAN THREE MONTHS?

Who doesn't write-- doesn't call-- and barely manages even to sneeze in Chat during all that time? *sigh*

I guess I felt a particular pang this Christmas... A yearning for the community of those who are related to All Things Rinkian, when my nephew-in-law received a wooden Buzzy Bee pull-toy (from New Zealand). Strange how such a thing, which brings a smile to my lips, can also cause me a measure of guilt at the same time.

Wolf "Hm. Regret enough do I of marginalized existence; insofar hence this lupine has fallen so far off the RinkRadar that Sam can speak whereof the LOTR 'Weta Workshops' without seeing need to make merry of my previous Giant Spiky Grasshopper fixation. And I have no one to blame but myself for this, and y'know what else? Stay clear of self-pity parties. They suck, and all offenders should be beaten mercilessly until morale improves." spirit