Subject: Temporarily Absent Friends
Posted by: UmberWunFayun
Date: Aug 15 18
With such a well known and loved FT member MIA for such a long time, I thought I'd better update everyone who is missing Elle, aka Blackdresss, on the situation, and at the same time provide a place where players can let everyone know if someone is going to be absent for a while to save any unnecessary worry. This is a close community, and we all notice if our friends disappear. So, from vacations to technological difficulties, please feel free to use this space to keep the community informed about temporarily absent friends (with their permission), or your own sojourns away from the screen should you wish to do so.
Posted by: UmberWunFayun
Date: Aug 15 18
With such a well known and loved FT member MIA for such a long time, I thought I'd better update everyone who is missing Elle, aka Blackdresss, on the situation, and at the same time provide a place where players can let everyone know if someone is going to be absent for a while to save any unnecessary worry. This is a close community, and we all notice if our friends disappear. So, from vacations to technological difficulties, please feel free to use this space to keep the community informed about temporarily absent friends (with their permission), or your own sojourns away from the screen should you wish to do so.
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rubytops 
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Just in case I am picked up on my incorrect writing of that players avatar it should have read postcards2go. Reply #121. Jun 16 19, 12:16 PM |
postcards2go
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Thank you, ruby. And, you can call me anything you want :-D Reply #122. Jun 16 19, 1:00 PM |
nasty_liar
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Just for some insight for you Brian I will provide you with my experience as example: In my first few years of membership, probably 2006-2010, I had 2 or 3 lengthy breaks from FT. Probably ranging from 6 months to one of them that was maybe 12 months. The reason for this was that I had lost interest, played something else in my down time and then forgotten about FT until one day I remembered it, logged in, saw new games and new quizzes and played a load. This was the pattern for a while until the site had got so good and I had got so interested in it that I could never leave it alone. As for the ones that disappear and never really return I think the most common reason is change of circumstance. I can think of quite a few players that pretty much stopped playing after starting a family for example. But it could be that they get bored and move onto something else, change of jobs, new relationship, new friends, new hobbies, illness, illness of a loved one. If anything changes or reverts back in life those people may find themselves coming back here again. I don’t see any reason to expect anything strange to be happening. Reply #123. Jun 16 19, 2:21 PM |
brm50diboll
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Well, I'm going to let the matter drop for now. My comments were in relation to scorpion1960's question. Considering that both scorpion1960 and the player in question are listed as being members of the same team, it seems odd that the question was brought up in a general FT board. Maybe they tried the team board first. That's certainly what I would have done. So my final words in this particular matter are these: I read the blogs which were deleted and remember well what was in them. In my opinion, the FT moderators did the right thing, maybe a little late, in my opinion. *Some* individuals *are* worthy of some suspicion. I think that is sad but true. In this *particular* case, I would hope that events do not repeat as they did at some point in the future. People deserve second chances, but fifth, sixth, seventh chances? Not so sure with what I read in this case. I hope FT moderators will be watching the content of virtual blogs closely. Deleting them does not change the fact that people remember them. I, personally, don't feel virtual blogs are the place for attempted amateur psychotherapy. I have said my peace on this. I was watching, I am watching, and I shall continue to watch situations such as this. Reply #124. Jun 16 19, 2:35 PM |
scorpion1960
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My question about Jazmee27 WAS NOT meant to ruffle any feathers. Get a grip. I disappeared for about 7 months Family illness, death, and depression can knock one on their feet. I missed a lot while I was gone and I was just wondering why everything of hers disappeared. Nothing more....nothing less. Have a nice day :) Reply #125. Jun 16 19, 8:42 PM |
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Lordy me....Knock one OFF their feet. I should never type when I'm a bit miffed. Reply #126. Jun 16 19, 8:44 PM |
| brm50diboll
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Did you ask on your team board? Seems they would be more likely to know. I do remember you, of course, Vanessa, from the time you spent on CLIQUE-KICKERS. Everyone called you Nessie then. Your cat avatars are wonderful, as were your stories about your cruises. I hope everything is well with you now and with your new team. Reply #127. Jun 16 19, 8:47 PM |
sadwings
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Omg - Ahyuk! I just love your comments on your profile page, scorpion. Even more amusing than what I have in my profile, which I change from time to time. :-) Reply #128. Jun 16 19, 9:21 PM |
| brm50diboll
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Hey Kev! Yeah, scorpion1960 is a great personality. You don't want to mess with her. And a Texan, as well. I never lived in Beaumont, though I did spend four years in Houston (1985-1989). The Gulf Coast humidity got to me though. Had to retreat farther inland. Been through Beaumont many times, though. Petrochemicals, refineries, all sorts of activity down there. But you lived in Texas for awhile too, Kevin. We think nothing of driving 400 miles in a day. Heck, I took I-10 all the way from Orange to El Paso in one day, once. The wide open spaces! Reply #129. Jun 16 19, 9:37 PM |
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Yes I did. No one knows why she left and I was just puttering around on the virtual blogs and wondered what happened to all her posts. Thanks to all for the answers. I am doing much better now. Sometimes life gives you lemons, but I got bowling balls. I was having some issues with losing everything I owned from the hurricane Harvey floods. I thought I was over it but I wasn't. Family illness and a friends unexpected death didn't help either. I kinda crawled into dark space and hid from life. I have been going to free counseling for flood survivors. Sixty inches of rain was mind blowing. Standing in your living room with ankle deep water put me in shock. No one can possibly understand the scope of the devastation unless they've been through it. It is still bad in a lot of places. People just walked away from their homes and there is a lot of foreclosures going on. Some houses have not even been opened since the floods. Anyway, I kind of wear my heart on my sleeves and get a little miffy. Apologies to Brian and anyone else I may have upset. All is well :) Reply #130. Jun 16 19, 10:20 PM |
| brm50diboll
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Yes. I remember your discussing the flooding you got from Harvey. My sympathies. For any readers not from Texas, Harvey was a very unusual hurricane. Most of the time, the primary cause of damage from a hurricane is due to storm surge. The second leading cause of damage is generally due to high winds and spinoff tornados. But Harvey was different. As far as storm surge and winds, it wasn't much. But the devastation of Harvey was due to the fact that the storm stalled while inland. By that time, it was tropical storm intensity, but it just sat there over the northern Gulf Coast and spun for about four days, dumping huge amounts of rain in an area relatively flat with limited drainage to begin with. The result was massive flooding. Trust me, *anyplace* that gets over 50 inches of rain in three or four days will experience flooding. Up here in Corsicana, we got about two inches of rain from Harvey. Not really any different than a thunderstorm, really. But down in the Houston-Beaumont northern Gulf Coast of Texas, they got slammed. I remember Alicia from the old days. Houston is actually several miles inland from the coast, but it is *so* prone to flooding. In the time I lived down there, I remember what Alicia did to Houston. It was two years before I moved there, but my parents and sister had already relocated to the Kingwood area (a suburb of Houston) and the Texas Medical Center in Houston was inundated. Fannin Street was briefly a river. Harvey had to be worse, much worse. My sister Carolyn (MCMiller1987) was the "baby" of our family. I had graduated Diboll High School in 1981, my brother also from DHS in 1984, but Dad's job had already moved to the Houston area by 1983, so he lived in an empty house in Kingwood during the week for work while Mom, my brother, and sister stayed in Diboll so that my brother could finish his senior year there and graduate (he was the valedictorian of DHS in 1984, as it was expected.) After his graduation, Mom and Carolyn left Diboll to join Dad in Kingwood, who had experienced Alicia firsthand. The "1987" part of my sister's username refers to the year of her high school graduation, Kingwood High School 1987. By that time, I was in the middle of my Houston years. Fannin Street in the Texas Medical Center of Houston flooded regularly during those years with any heavy rains. So I sympathize. I have no desire to ever relocate to the Texas Gulf Coast again. Even when it doesn't flood, the humidity there is something awful. The 95 Club in the summer: 95°F and 95% humidity for almost four straight months. But we learn things from our past experiences. Talking about the old days, over 30 years ago. I try to stay in the present as much as possible, but sometimes I slip. I was a young man then, in my 20s, the prime of life. Too bad FT didn't exist back then. Would've been a blast. I was so much faster thinking then than now. I would've crushed Piece of Cake in the Top Division in under 10 seconds, I think. Reply #131. Jun 17 19, 2:37 AM |
terraorca
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I remember Harvey, the National Weather Service had to invent new colors for precipitation per hour, because the colors they had in place didn't go far enough. I did a job in Humble, Texas a few years back, and I can personally speak to the humidity. Reply #132. Jun 17 19, 6:46 AM |
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When my parents and my sister lived in Kingwood, my Mom worked as a school nurse for Humble ISD. Small world. Reply #133. Jun 17 19, 9:07 AM |
Skyflyerjen
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Does anyone know if Elle is okay? She hasn't been on here since March. Reply #134. Jun 17 19, 10:40 AM |
| scorpion1960
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Thank you Brian for getting it and understanding. We have moved out of zone 1 into zone 2. The house we are in now did not flood. The humidity is still stifling though :) Reply #135. Jun 17 19, 8:05 PM |
| terraorca
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Elle has had some serious health issues. She asked that the team not talk about them. I have since left that team, yet will still respect her wishes Reply #136. Jul 13 19, 4:37 PM |
| sadwings
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When I saw that there had been a recent post on this thread, I immediately thought of Elle, but your news was not at all what I had hopes for, Mark. I hope that she will be able to overcome whatever these issues may be and join us again soon. Reply #137. Jul 13 19, 9:58 PM |
| sadwings
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Mark, you and Elle and I need to saddle up and hit the dusty trail again sometime after Elle has joined us again. Remember when all of us and Stephanie did that? We could and should do that again in honor of Stephanie's memory, and we could include just anyone else who would like to ride along. That was some of the most fun I have ever had here since I have been a member. Reply #138. Jul 13 19, 10:06 PM |
| Skyflyerjen
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terraorca: thank you. I was worried about that. It’s nice to know that at least she didn’t abandon the site because she was angry or something. I respect the fact that you respected her wishes as well. Reply #139. Jul 15 19, 10:58 AM |
| sadwings
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Jen, maybe you could saddle up and ride the trail with me and Mark and Elle when Elle gets back, and maybe we can be joined by Jo and Cat and caz and whoever else wants to tide along. We could be a posse on the trail of some notorious outlaws or something. That would be pretty cool. Bang! Bang! I got you Mr. Outlaw! I got youuu! I bet there would be a lot of that going on. :-) Reply #140. Jul 15 19, 2:31 PM |
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