> That said, I can understand feeling newish if
you are around the like five people who have
been around longer than you reminiscing
about times before you were here, but nothing
that happened that long ago has any bearing
on the state of things now.

Well, hence my disclaimer saying that only *at
times* do I feel this way. Times just like you've
described. The purpose of my post was to try
to help Brunnen-G understand how it might be
possible for someone like ang to still feel like
a newbie... if I who have been hanging around
this place and getting to know people for the
past three-plus years can feel that way on
occasion, it must be even more so for
someone who has been here an even
shorter time.