A week since D-day and what a week it was. Just momentarily suspending my retirement to reply to some of these 344 (wow, I expected the thread to die before it got to page 2) posts.
I'm actually surprised by the % of non hate posts that I saw. Some people had very kind words to say and I really appreciate that. I thank you for your balance, perspective and point of view.
Twizzle, at least I can admit my issues. You apparently detest me and yet find it worthwhile to check my last online time on a daily basis (at least). Do you have nothing better to do? To satisfy your curiosity I have been online a couple times in the last week to check if I had any messages. I didn't want anybody who took the time to message me to be ignored, I thought it was the decent thing to do. I was not "lurking" because that is stupid. You don't even need to log on to lurk. These aren't private threads. I may from time to time in the future get on to check for and reply to messages, my retirement was a retirement from forum posting.
To people who keep accusing me of supposedly derailing threads. You think that way because you insist on blaming me for the actions of others. Have I ever been talking to myself in a thread? No. Do I go offtopic or abuse like many do? No. The usual pattern would be I would make a single on topic post relevant to the thread or in response to a previous post. Then a dozen idiots would swarm in to abuse or mock me or what I said. End result, thread derailed. And somehow I keep getting blamed for that.
To the people who still cannot get over lies well over a year after the fact. You act like I'm the worst person on the planet. If my lies are the worst thing to have happened to you then you have bloody sheltered fortunate lives. Yes lying is wrong, yes if I had my time over I wouldn't have done it, but in the grand scheme of things my lies were extremely minor indiscretions. In this forum and in life in general people say/do worse things on a daily basis than the absolute worst of the worst of what I did. Try to have a proportionate response.
Anyway, sorry to bother you. Back to hibernation it is for me. Have a nice day (or night).
