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Roll Call part deux.

  
  

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Tom Coates
03:13 / 18.11.09
If you guys want the full truth, my job has pretty much killed my enthusiasm for the web over the last year or two, and so no, my blog hasn't been updated for a while either. Add to that moving to the US and falling over and paralysing my arm for five months and getting very dark at points, and I stopped really wanting to write about much of anything.

I still write a bunch of crap on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/plasticbagUK and the plan is to leave my current job in the next few months before it totally kills me, take a few months off and plan my next assault on the world. I'm hoping my love for the internet comes back and I start writing, building, being creative again.
 
 
Dead Megatron
08:28 / 18.11.09
Still popping in now and again. Always depressed to find less and less new content here.

Used to feel that way. Now I feel nothing. But still stop by and check the place out every now and then.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
10:50 / 18.11.09
Cheers, Tom. Good luck with it all.

Be well.
 
 
Spaniel
19:03 / 18.11.09
I await your next assault, Tom

Chip up, chap
 
 
Tsuga
20:06 / 18.11.09
Yes, Tom, hope you get some happy impetus soon.
 
 
grant
02:06 / 19.11.09
If it's not obvious Tom, I want to hug you.

As long as it doesn't hurt your arm.
 
 
moriarty
18:35 / 19.11.09
I pop in every four years or so.
 
 
JOY NO WRY
15:18 / 20.11.09
I'm still around.
 
 
Jub
23:11 / 20.11.09
Me too - but rarely owing to a chang in circumstance. IE, no more office bullshit with plenty barbetime.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
08:34 / 21.11.09
Used to feel that way. Now I feel nothing.

And that's why they call him "Dead" Megatron.

Still, I envy you, DM.

I will now be checking in every third Saturday when the tedium of my job starts eating away at what remains of my sanity, and I'm teetering on the brink of tears with the hopelessness of it all (like now).
 
 
jon
04:20 / 22.11.09
I was a lurker back in the day and still check in once a month or so ...
 
 
trouble at bill
11:45 / 22.11.09
May the Force be with you Tom, must say your Tweets are one of the few things that make Twitter worth bothering with for me. Well, yours and the fake Nick Griffin's and those of Mrs Stephen Fry. :>
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:08 / 25.11.09
I still pop in on occasion. All the best, Mr Coates. You're a gentleman and a scholar.
 
 
Char Aina
11:23 / 26.11.09
Here less and less. Seems like my internet activity these days is all about reading blogs and posting on secret boards and boards based on stuff I do IRL. Not what I would have imagined back in the day, but it seems to be working pretty well. I wonder if it'll stay that way.

Tom, you seem cool. You always have. I don't really know you, but I've added you to our twitter on that basis.

Hopefully whatever you do with yourself, you'll have fun.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
05:58 / 27.11.09
Isn't it great when everyone's happy? Best of luck, everyone!
 
 
astrojax69
04:20 / 30.11.09
i check in only infrequently now-a-days... this year the universe has supplied me with abyss' (a cycle accident, fracturing ribs and damaging eye nerves) and pinnacles (the arrival nine odd weeks ago of a l'il astro, who is nestling pooing and and vomming in my arms as i write this - better pop off and change nappiy!)

but hi everyone!!
 
 
sleazenation
12:27 / 30.11.09
I have no Idea how long it has been since I last popped in.

Hi all.
 
 
grant
18:14 / 30.11.09
Congratulations (and, I suppose, condolences) astrojax!
 
 
Haus Of Pain
08:11 / 01.12.09
43 peeps in a month, outstanding.
 
 
Ticker
14:26 / 02.12.09
I mostly sift through old anime/manga threads or check Convo to see how peeps are doing that aren't on StabbyFace.
 
 
Spaniel
20:04 / 02.12.09
What Grant said, Astro.

Hope the eyes are doing better
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
10:24 / 04.12.09
Log in now and again but the board is so depressingly slow that it only really seems to serve as an archive. As an active message board it's the online equivalent of watching paint dry in a coma.
 
 
astrojax69
06:32 / 06.12.09
cheers grant and boboss, healing process all but done, so all good on that front - and yay very much loving dadness. nothing prepares you but it is an astounding process and the emotional highs and sleep deprivation lows are all a brilliant package...

not that many people here will read about it... ~
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
17:02 / 06.12.09
You could start a blog - Dadblog, or something to that effect. In it, you could talk about the unique highs and lows of fatherhood. Then other fathers could be guest bloggers - or you could have parallel blogs from several fathers of children of different ages.

This could be big, dude.
 
 
astrojax69
21:16 / 06.12.09
i like that - and i like your name. my dad always said 'it's nice to be nice', and i always took that as a workable life motto. will have to start blogging - something else new in my life!
 
 
Speedy
21:24 / 06.12.09
lol
 
 
Quantum
16:00 / 08.12.09
dadblog.co.uk = "Dadblog is currently sleeping" the top entry is Why America Needs a Jade Goody so it's safe to say it's not going to be that big.

But while we're on the subject my five month old just cut her first tooth, whoop! No sleeping for Quantum!
 
 
Baz Auckland
18:27 / 10.12.09
Barbelith is still up on my bookmarks, but I only click on it maybe once a month, just to make sure it's still here... I haven't really read a thread in a while... I miss it though!
 
 
Anna de Logardiere
22:09 / 10.12.09
She got her first tooth already???!! We're still waiting for The Mund's. I spend so much time trying to control the dribble!
 
 
sTe
00:28 / 12.12.09
babies? Good work there in continuing humankind

In response to the thing - Only when I remember and usually am drunk and alone, sad but true. Although you're never alone with all your pals on the 'lith or so I heard (think it was some fish based chap who told me, but I forget)
 
 
Yagg
03:00 / 22.12.09
Ever have a favorite bar, and you go there all the time, but then every time you do there seems to be a fight and a general feeling of hostility, so you quit going? And then you stop back in a year or two later and there's nobody in there? And you realize you've changed and you just aren't into hanging out in that bar anymore anyway? (Or maybe just bars in general?)

Yeah, like that.

I stop by every few months, just to see. Don't see much.
 
 
bio k9
03:33 / 22.12.09
Holy crap, it's like an old folks home in here.
 
 
gingerbop
21:22 / 03.01.10
I am very vaguely present.
 
 
Spaniel
14:19 / 04.01.10
Q, it's really strange how you get nostalgic for those sleepless nights. Here's hoping to be rejoining your ranks sometime in late 2010.

Currently we're all about which school.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:30 / 04.01.10
Seriously, private is the way to go. Something with a uniform, if possible, from the age of about 4. It's completely destigmatised now!
 
  

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