...And what brought you back?

It's been three+ years for me and I was reminded recently how great some of ya'll are. I've lurked occasionally, but I've missed a lot I'm sure. I've always held this site in high esteem for entertainment and good conversation (when it can be had between poasts) so it feels great to participate again after a long hiatus.

Poll question: What's the longest break you've taken from posting on #thissite?

Poll result (33 votes) Less than 6 months (13 votes) Vote Less than a year, but more than 6 months (2 votes) Vote More than a year (12 votes) Vote More than five years (2 votes) Vote Um...who the hell are you? (1 votes) Vote Damn son, I thought you were dead! (3 votes) Vote

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Your perspective is lacking around here.
And the rest of you former posters reading this, I'm talking to you too.
Most of you.

From the little bits I've been able to glean from posts here and there... I've actually found myself pleasantly surprised by the contributions of posters who I recognize and remember as not really being the usual suspects on either side of hot button issues.

A lot of folks seem to have grown, shifted towards center from what I remember.

2 years.

that's no lurking or nothing. straight gone. nothing prompted it, i just had other shit on my mind and this place was off my radar.

and i came back cuz one day i heard some "news" that didn't sound true so i came here to verify. cuz page 1 of GD is always the spot to verify news.

then i was back...

....i lurk occasionally during those breaks but I always find myself back..

NERL

"...page 1 of GD is always the spot to verify news." -BigJazz

"NERL" - Seven and everyone who's ever been on here.

Now that things on the job front are more settled, it's a decent way to pass the day, when I need to step away from work.

I thought about you a month or so ago. I wondered if you were still attempting to create the artists colony.

Although now I kind of think there's a possibility that you're an avatar. Are you a real person or someone's alternative okp personality (alias)? It doesn't matter but I thought I'd ask.

I'm happy to see your name pop up in conversation, alias or not.

I'm still deep in the research/developmental stage and don't really see fruition occurring until I'm in my 40's... unless I become exceptionally lucky. The earnest desire is still there and I've done (and saved) quite a bit towards my goal since I was on here last... despite that goal changing over time. I might make a post about it in the future.

As for your suspicion, I think I might be one of the few posters here who has never logged in as anything other than my original username. Technology and I already don't mesh very well without the added struggle of me attempting to remember multiple handles and passwords haha.

Has there been any recent pic/video posts? I remember a good time being had by all who participated in those and I participated in most of them...

The longest I've gone is just under 6 months, I believe.
Okaymonths be like years tho,...'cus when I came back this muthafukka was like a ghosttown, sheeeiiiiittt, ....STILL is.

Its a gang of Katz that I don't see no more, 'less they cold aliased da game up. Can't call it tho....

Glad to see you back

...being cool with me staying on their property:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Hill_Country


Absolutely loved it.

i assumed that is why you left.

I was alone and it was not nearly at the scale I proposed here, but it was a start and I confirmed for myself that I was capable of living off-grid.

Since then, I've turned my sights on other approaches besides developing raw land, including re-purposing existing infrastructure on urban properties and building up the soil there via permaculture techniques.

As of now, this appears to be the route that will make what I have in mind most attainable in the short run... but there are pretty significant hurdles and compromises that could eclipse the financial benefit of doing it this way too.

...to sift through all the jargon for laws I have the potential to break is both exhausting and hella disheartening lol.

I want to build some alternative structures as homeless housing and the code stands in the way of that... extremely frustrating.

> extremely frustrating.

Regarding alternative structures, what type of construction method did you have in mind?

Pallet based structures...easy to gather the pallets, and I wanted to work with local Architecture students (and an established architect friend) to make a modular system that could be moved.

I was posting in The Lesson 99% of the time until about 2006 or so. Then I started posting here in GD but always from work. Then one day I went in and this site was being blocked by Webwasher for "Adult Content" or some shit and I stopped coming.

Oddly, I tried hitting here in late 2010 or early 2011 and it was being allowed on the corp network, so I started posting sparingly again.

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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.

This is my first post in years.... and prolly my longest break from the boards in the decade and a half I've been on.

Maybe there should be periodic post for lurkers to stretch out in every once in while haha?

The few times I lurked on here after leaving... I remember a couple of posts that I really wanted to jump in on, but the most I had time for was to read them and not engage. I missed what were undoubtedly good posts discussing some events that have happened in the last six months, let alone the last three years...

:-)

Til the wheels fall off.

Ive done under a year. UltimatelyI come back because I like to talk anonymous shit. That's all there is to it. Not many places left for that online, especially not with the community of folk like what's developed here.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

>...And what brought you back?
>
>It's been three+ years for me and I was reminded recently how
>great some of ya'll are. I've lurked occasionally, but I've
>missed a lot I'm sure. I've always held this site in high
>esteem for entertainment and good conversation (when it can be
>had between poasts) so it feels great to participate again
>after a long hiatus.
>
>

OKP was blocked at work, and I didn't (and still don't) do much in the way of evening posting

1999 - 2005 was the longest stretch
then 2009 to 2011
So I've been gone more than I've been around
kinda like you lol

Longest I've not lurked is maybe 3/4 months