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> > > Well, I can't help but miss my morning buddy. Of course, even if he was at work today, he would've gone home by now.
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> > Hey, can I be your morning buddy today? :P I'm stuck at home because my car wouldn't start and thus I couldn't get to work... sigh.
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> Sure! Of course it's now 12:15, so you can be my noon-buddy! k?

Well, that's because you use Eastern Time (aka "the future" to me). It's about 09:30 here in sunny Southern California.

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> > > Anyway, here's my thought for the day:
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> > > I crack up sometimes when reading these posts and I'm thinking, how many people are reading them and just not responding. It's funny because I know when I post something that Darien, Issachar, Chris, Howard, Jommeke, Wolfspirit, Paul A., Stephen, Sam (of course) and a few others will always read it. BUT there are more people that read it than I will ever know. Every once in a while a new guest will pop up, but not many say more than a few things. It's just wierd. Cool, but weird...
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> > Well, for the record I don't read everything that gets posted. Sometimes when I get back from being gone and EVERY message on the recent messages page is new I just don't have the will to spend four hours reading them, heh. But I read a lot more threads than I respond to.
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> > > fam "hi to all the silent readers!" ous
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> > Yeah! Go lurkers! I am a classic lurker myself. When I come to a new forum or something, I'm prone to reading it for weeks without saying something. Or often I'll say very little. It's interesting that with this forum I've been active from the very beginning but there have been times where I'll lurk for a month or two (seriously). I don't know why it is, but every now and then I just get sick of posting stuff and go back into lurk mode. Anyway.
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> That's cool. I do it too, but I can't go too long without posting something....just have an itch to be heard i guess. You know what I think, I think I use this forum as just a way to speak up. I am generally the listener/advice giver of my friends, and rarely do I have a chance to speak about what I want to. There's the reason I post so much.

Heh heh. I don't really find that I post a lot when compared to others.... :P But even so this forum is rarely so swamped with messages that it's impossible to read. Any decent sized newsgroup isn't worth my lurking time just because it gets so many worthless posts. I like the size of the RinkForum...

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> > Ste "*$&*in' car!" phen
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> Sorry about the car. I'd fix it for you if I could!
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> famous :)

Gah. I need to work on it today...

Ste "I wish I could reboot my car" phen