The Thank You Thread

LOL! I meant on-board with getting off-board, if you catch my drift. I finally deleted all my "social media" accounts back in January and, unlike nicotine, have not fallen off the wagon. But like with nicotine, I still have the urge. The urge to post pithy thoughts and share pictures of food anyway. So, sorry about that while I was decompressing earlier in the year.

But the tech nostalgia is great. Sorry TOO if you end up having to spin some of these posts off into an off-topic thread.

I didn't have a computer growing up. Lack of foresight as well as funding; this was the late 80s and typing was still only mandatory for business majors at my high school, if you can believe that. I found myself around the turn of the century in a situation where I had to learn everything by the seat of my pants, but I caught up pretty fast. I was among the first wave of redditors, and one of the first to delete my account there too. I beta tested Hulu, but anyone who knew it was coming (like people on reddit!) could have done that. I learned very quickly the real secret to the information age: ask someone smarter, or at least more experienced than you. That eventually morphed into "just Google it!" but I miss the days when you could find any answer by searching for and on forums similar to this one. And it was all free because geeks were that anxious to show off. Getting reacquainted with bbcode on here gives me almost of a warm glow as you fine folks. I also somehow about 15 years ago ended up spending the better part of a year in the MIS department of an evangelical Christian media company, despite having no credentials or portfolio...but that's a story for another time.

slyp, I found Twitter, or at least Deadhead Twitter, very useful in the run-up to FTW too. I deleted my account after the shows though, because I had actually managed to attract enough of a following to exacerbate my paranoia. Maybe not everyone on one's Friends list is really a friend but you've probably met them, ya know? At any rate, that penchant for obsessive research with these things is what dumped me and Sue off here in the first place. Ain't life grand?