Oh, do I get it. I have friends that have moved on. I mean real friends. For the real reasons that you offer here.

I'm not writing much, but what I write has some poop to it. Even the mailboxes are better than average :)

I'm trying to decide whether it's worth just turning loose and writing what I need to write. You see, I have way more in common with Saltnpapper than most others. I'm not writing for the money, I'm writing for the freedom. I've written for the money and the BS isn't worth it to me. Nobody is much reading here today, but are they reading anywhere? Really?

Where is better than here? Medium? BTDT. I think it might be better now, but the change to 'paid' was painful at very best. A guy I knew swallowed his gun out of that deal.

So, I'm guessing I'll be here in one form or another. I am a serious optimist in general terms and I see Pal Net as possibly helping and Lira as taking the whole mess main stream. And I'm old. I knew when I came here that I was probably going to bust my ass for the last time at a place.

I'm just in it for me at this point. I read 50 or so posts a day write a couple a week and that's probably about all I can manage.

We coulda been a contender...