Glad We're Back!!

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

It’s funny how a group of people can give one a comforting sense of belonging even if you’re the outsider or black sheep among that group and don’t really fit in especially when you have no other group or tribe to belong to or in my case, are a reclusive hermit that rarely ventures beyond the walls of my compound into the real world more than once a month purely out of necessity.

People here may have no fondness for me and there are some here I don’t much care for either but as a whole, the loss and emptiness I felt while RN was down was disheartening and very real especially over Christmas where I felt alone and cut off from the people I wanted to be around and even if I didn’t plan on engaging much. Just knowing you all were here if I wanted to gave me comfort but then you weren’t and it was weird and unsettling.

Seeing the site once again come to life in the same old comfy shoes lifted my spirits and brought me joy so I wanted to say a heartfelt thank you for the dedication and commitment to the powers that be for keeping the lights on and the fires burning which means a lot to an old cow like me.

I quietly prided myself on perceiving the internet and its many avenues with a wary non-committal eye
and the notion that one never truly knows who one is communicating with. But these last few days...
I missed you all.

Ditto! 

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It’s funny how a group of people can give one a comforting sense of belonging even if you’re the outsider or black sheep among that group and don’t really fit in especially when you have no other group or tribe to belong to or in my case, are a reclusive hermit that rarely ventures beyond the walls of my compound into the real world more than once a month purely out of necessity.

People here may have no fondness for me and there are some here I don’t much care for either but as a whole, the loss and emptiness I felt while RN was down was disheartening and very real especially over Christmas where I felt alone and cut off from the people I wanted to be around and even if I didn’t plan on engaging much. Just knowing you all were here if I wanted to gave me comfort but then you weren’t and it was weird and unsettling.

Seeing the site once again come to life in the same old comfy shoes lifted my spirits and brought me joy so I wanted to say a heartfelt thank you for the dedication and commitment to the powers that be for keeping the lights on and the fires burning which means a lot to an old cow like me.

I can seriously relate.

Blessfully quiet around here during the holiday weeks. Only 2 of us was holding down the fort, so it was more than a blessing that it was quiet.

I too missed the place and all of you.

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I'm glad RN is back! I have come to enjoy this site very much and was worried it wouldn't be back.

For some reason I didn't think it wouldn't come back up. I expected it to come back, and I kept checking.

ATS was my first forum, and became the place where I kept returning, after trying too many other sites, and I just could not put up with the incivility, and the hostilities, until they went down the last time and was reset. I did not re-register, so I just lurk now.

I have been decreasing my online time. I have so much to do and I want to do more. I like that I can't respond to some of the post, because most of the time, I don't have anything of value to add that I have not already said before, and if I did, most folk don't want to hear it anyway. 

Glad we are back. Rogue Nation has gotten me through a lot of long lonely nights waiting for that call to come. Those last 3 hours of a 16 hour or 24 hour call, goes by so much faster with the Shoutbox keeping me awake.

I love this place and all the folks here. Especially at Christmas season, since I am from the Island of Misfit Toys.