Reply #52: Thank you for the nice response. [View All]

Oddly enough - I have through this thread come to the conclusion that I no longer fit in the lounge. Odd - eh. Can't quite explain it - but even folks I have conversed with throughout the above (OP) stories - are here - but not responding. Like its just not the sort of thing we talk about in the lounge - or worse, I am not the sort of person one talks to in the lounge? Been growing for awhile - but tonight I realize I have more comraderie and welcome-ness (not a word, but you know what I mean) in the ever dreaded/combative GD than I do in the lounge. It is nothing personal to anyone in the lounge - just that it has changed as the number of denizens has increased, and I don't fit with the direction that it has grown. A natural (though uncomfortable for me) progression of a growing discussion board.

So while I greatly appreciate your words, such "intelligent threads" as you complitmentary term it - may have to be found at other parts of the DU in the future.

So odd to say that for the first time in four years.