Oh great, THAT will REALLY draw in the hunni-bunnis.


"Wanting"?
What, wanting to send me gift cards and money orders?


The only good thing for FishingMan is that it's mid-week & not a weekend.
Might get lucky and make bail by Friday - or some day ending in "y" anyways.

Oh great, THAT will REALLY draw in the hunni-bunnis.


"Wanting"?
What, wanting to send me gift cards and money orders?


The only good thing for FishingMan is that it's mid-week & not a weekend.
Might get lucky and make bail by Friday - or some day ending in "y" anyways.

Luckily, the few sweeties worth a dayum know about my dual citizenship & won't disappear just because FishingMan got tossed in the gulag for a few days.
There are actually three of me in there but I gave up on the other two.
One of them didn't even get onto the board, got scooped up so fast it never had a chance to write a profile or run a search even.

Banning accounts is a game as old as forums.
I've been able to stay ahead of any such actions in the past on other forums with the use of VPNs, alternate emails, and shifts in syntax & grammar to conceal my true identity - but it just isn't worth the bother here since 99% of the action is only scammer accounts anyway.

Back in the early 2000s, before they shut the whole thing down at the end of the decade, I used to work as a volunteer in Yahoo Chat Help:1 & Yahoo Chat Help:2.
Stephanie Bergman, who was Yahoo's administrator over all of the chat rooms, got us volunteers involved in a game amongst ourselves whereby we would create new identities that had to at least hint at who we really were.

By my count I had some 330+ separate accounts on Yahoo Chat, most of them a twist on either IdioT_SavanT_i4 or Anonymouse_I_Dentity.
xxxxi4_1, xxxxi4_2, xxxxi4_3, pumpkineateri4, vampirei4, frankeni4, santai4, etc. etc. etc.
There was an endless supply of Yahoo emails available & everyone always got "dressed-up" (changed IDs) for holidays.

What it did was keep us recognized by other help volunteers trying to serve users with problems, while escaping "booters" who might have objected to our work developing "booter-proof" chat clients with 3rd party developers & tried to knock us off chat entirely.

That was some of my best times on the interweebz, often going for 30-40 consecutive hours straight laughing, chatting with dear friends all over the globe, and fixing problems with user's chat client operation (even telling people how to fix unrelated stuff, like a dead burner on a smooth-top stove or how to change the brakes on their 1985 Mustang).
I learned a lot about a lot of things from some super-intelligent peeps there.

She's the smart one.
She took the vaccine & escaped this lunacy.

I've known a couple dozen vets over the years.
Some fought, some just served, but to a man (or a couple of women too) they have something in common with my youngest, who was in the Naval Reserve.
They don't want to talk about it.
Go to extraordinary lengths to avoid doing so.

My best and only remaining besty male friend served on the A-Gang aboard the USS Frederick LST hull# 1184 during the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.
Over more than 5 decades that's still about all I know about his 4 years afloat, other than his A-Gang used to sell access to unlimited-length hot showers under the cooling outflow from the water desalination plant - a very high demand item on a tank landing transport in the South China Sea.

I'm still here!
Sometimes I get so busy with whatnot that I don't get to Mingle for a day or two, hihi.
Don't ask me what I've been doing, I wouldn't be able to tell, hihi. Just silly li'l things.

OT -------------
Me's thinking.... where's the sun?!?!
My solar lights start to fade and if I don't get any sunlight soon, so will I, hihi.

Not sure if I've given Annika a whirl... I'll have to watch an episode to find out.

LOTR and The Hobbit are great! I never read the books, just the movies.
I also like The Hunger Games. And the Divergent movies.

As for King Arthur... Have you seen King Arthur Legend of the Sword?
Brilliant movie! With Charlie Hunnam as King Arthur.
The movie is shot the same way as "300 Rise of an Empire". A style of filming I absolutely love for certain movies.

Don't really consume alcohol other than to taste it occasionally.
German whites in my cellar back to the early 2000s.
Auslese goes really well with lobster & tenderloin, walleye, & New England clam chowder.
Got any flower, maybe a gummy?

It's legal for you, I still live in a 1930s prohibition state.
For a supposedly progressive state Wisconsin is remarkably resistant to change on that particular vice.

Ohh they have the phone chargers that are solar powered..that comes with solar panels..

I have not bought one yet just seen them not a bad idea..

The extra charger I have for my phone I keep it fully charged just in case I loose power.

Upon reflection, I think I would just take Kristi.

That's the writer in me, Zee.
Never was a day 1 word would suffice when I could write an entire novelette in an afternoon.
I did a lot of sports (NFL-Packers, mostly) writing for 25 years, covering everything from the draft, free agency, pre-game & post-game dissections, to filling requests from fans of other teams to get my opinion on one thing or another about their team or players.

I built a pretty substantial reputation in those circles as someone who could write objectively and without fan bias in my opinions.
All told I posted over 33,000 articles and more than 4 million words on NFL football from 2001-2025.

I've contributed Guest columns to the local rag from time to time as well.
Been friends with an editor emeritus of the Cap Times since the 90s.

Knowledge is power.
While my profile is a long read, no woman capable of doing so should waste her time on me if what I describe myself as doesn't meet her desires.
Problem is, hardly any of them bother even looking at it, let alone attempting to read it.
Most of 'em can't even be bothered to fill out their own profiles, f/f/s.


Makes it a little easier to separate the wheat from the chaff anyhow.
If they can't be arsed enough to find out something about me before sending me emails asking me to jump onto Wazzapp or googlychat, then they aren't serious enough to be a potential companion anyway.
Ain't no shortage of 'em trying, on this site, though.

Ebbil geneyus Zee strikes again.

Dem po' Frenchies, they dun stand a chance agin The Hurricane from the North.

Yeah, this account has been scooped up THREE TIMES now.
At least admins are getting better at correcting the AI-bot's screw ups.
The 1st time it took 13 days to get it back, the 2nd time almost a week, & the third (this) time 3 days.
Of course it's gunna happen again, this account is just AI-antagonistic I guess.

Yup, liked Annika a lot. It falls into that UK procedurals category I mentioned liking.

About your choice in reading....MZB sound familiar?
Darkover is just about the richest universe of fantasy I've ever read from end-to-end.
C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Andre (Alice) Norton, Ann McCaffrey, Janet Morris, James (Alice) Tiptree Jr. and of course one of my correspondence partners, C.J. Cherryh - ALL terrific Fantasy authors in my collection(s) & all far more worthy of having movies made from their works than puddin'head Philip K.Dick.
At least Hollyweird got it right by producing movies from a number of Ursula K. LeGuin novels.

I use SF broadly but it encompasses Fantasy as well - though I'm most partial to military hard SF like Hammer's Slammers (Drake) & some of the new blood authors like Jay Allan, M. D. Cooper, & J. N. Chaney.
These new breed of SF authors are actually more like writing co-ops, putting out co-authored volumes at such a prodigious rate it's hard to keep up.

My favorite fantasy story of all time is "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McAntyre.
I've read it 3 times now, about a decade between readings, & I still get all misty-eyed every time.