Reply #276: As a...

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... long time "lurker", but recently frequent poster, I enjoy that we can personalize our blurbs. Unfortunately I live in the "sticks". Shoot, not only am I stuck with dial-up, but we don't even have cable out here! I appreciate the smaller graphics so that I may still enjoy the creativity of others, but won't have to wait quite so long for the loading. Yes, I could turn the sigs and stuff off, but since I do enjoy them for the most part, it would kind of suck if my only alternative was to turn them off.

Plus, I think the bottom line for me is that there is FINALLY a place that I can come for REAL information about the world around me. I had sort of thought of myself as a bit of a "news hound" until a friend that is a more veteran member here than I, pointed me in your direction. Cripes! Never in a million years could I have EVER imagined that what I was seeing and reading before wasn't true and accurate. And there is NO sarcasm in that last tidbit. I have learned more from so many different people here that I have become much better informed politically!

I have been away from computer access a little bit lately and I swear, I can't wait to get home to sit down and see what I have missed. I'm informed, entertained, educated and most of all... I am becoming a more involved citizen, activist and voter!

Thanks to Skinner and all the others that make this neighborhood available to us. I know I appreciate so many of the folks that have posted "welcomes" to me and made me feel like one of the gang. Hopefully those of you who find the new guidelines a bit too restrictive can work with Skinner and the others to figure out a nice compromise.

Okay, now I'm off to see what I missed while being gone all afternoon and evening, and to see what's next that I can do to support Cindy!

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