• Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Reached an epiphany in life today

WebSlave

It is what it is, but certainly not what it was.
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With everything going on, in a micro and macro level, I reached a telling epiphany today. I have come to appreciate bitter old men. I understand what made them that way. I understand that life can just gang up on you leaving you no recourse but to just hate every waking moment. To not give a damn about whether you wake up in the morning or not. And when you do wake up, you struggle to find any reason to get out of bed. When someone says "good morning" to you, your immediate thought is "what is so good about it?"

You think about doing something. Anything. But why bother? What is the point? You look to the future and can see that there is nothing inviting about it. The past is where I want to live. But I know that path does not exist.

So what is the problem? I am fairly financially secure. I live in a little paradise in north Florida. I have surrounded myself with toys to play with. I actually found a wonderful woman in Thailand that is an absolute gem. Why isn't that enough?

Just a really bad day? Well, it is a Saturday. The 11th of the month. Connie died on a Saturday. The 11th of November. Damn subconscious is a real bitch sometimes.
 
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