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I don't have my own thread where people come by and say HI, and I reply hi back and end up with a billion posts. I have to work for what I get Bruce. Every single one.

I do post and I am out to do my personal best. That's how I handle everything in my life. My first few years on BYC, barely posted at all. I didn't know how do much with a computer, didn't know many people. My first friends were sourland & Alaskan and I've enjoyed their "company" ever since.

Everything I do in my life, I am geared to do better than I DID before. I don't expect rewards or adoration. If no one claps or whistles or puts a a wreath of roses around my neck, I just continue on my way.

A very good friend turned up as a show runner for me. Kept everyone informed about how many more posts I needed to to reach 100,000. I have never forgotten that kindness of doing so. It made achieving my goal so much more enjoyable. When I hit that mark, I told NIfty I wasn't done yet. I have no idea how high it will go, or when /if I'll be too worn out to keep going. What happens, happens.

'Good enough"- as my brother says about "government work," WAS NEVER good enough for me. To be frank I think this hard drive I had to better myself is because no one thought I was worth the time of day when I was young. I was picked on by neighbor kids, kids in physical ed, my own relatives. I was extremely shy & fearful after some incident when I was 5 years old.

Sorry for ranting but, my son just called me and like last Sunday's call just was very sarcastic.He's mad that I haven't had the $$$ to remodel the house. I was just a dog groomer and never felt it was worth more than $ 10. to do so. I charged $ 10. when I was 16 and trimming in our basement. I charged $ 10. when at 19 I had my own grooming salon. I was so excited to have the money for rent, electric, heat and most of all paying hefty amount for insurance. Being new to the business world, I didn't realize my insurance payments were just coverage for the plate glass windows.
 
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I don't have my own thread where people come by and say HI, and I reply hi back and end up with a billion posts. I have to work for what I get Bruce. Every single one.

I do post and I am out to do my personal best. That's how I handle everything in my life. My first few years on BYC, barely posted at all. I didn't know how do much with a computer, didn't know many people. My first friends were sourland & Alaskan and I've enjoyed their "company" ever since.

Everything I do in my life, I am geared to do better than I DID before. I don't expect rewards or adoration. If no one claps or whistles or puts a a wreath of roses around my neck, I just continue on my way.

A very good friend turned up as a show runner for me. Kept everyone informed about how many more posts I needed to to reach 100,000. I have never forgotten that kindness of doing so. It made achieving my goal so much more enjoyable. When I hit that mark, I told NIfty I wasn't done yet. I have no idea how high it will go, or when /if I'll be too worn out to keep going. What happens, happens.

'Good enough"- as my brother says about "government work," WAS NEVER good enough for me. To be frank I think this hard drive I had to better myself is because no one thought I was worth the time of day when I was young. I was picked on by neighbor kids, kids in physical ed, my own relatives. I was extremely shy & fearful after some incident when I was 5 years old.

Sorry for ranting but, my son just called me and like last Sunday's call just was very sarcastic.He's mad that I haven't had the $$$ to remodel the house. I was just a dog groomer and never felt it was worth more than $ 10. to do so. I charged $ 10. when I was 16 and trimming in our basement. I charged $ 10. when at 19 I had my own grooming salon. I was so excited to have the money for rent, electric, heat and most of all paying hefty amount for insurance. Being new to the business world, I didn't realize my insurance payments were just coverage for the plate glass windows.
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You do very well on BYC!

I do not have a social thread either and can't even imagine how someone posts that much in a day if they are thoughtfully answering posts like you do. It is hard for me to get 50 posts a day
 
Right on ron. Around Easter every year the New Member introductions seems to increase to tremendous levels. If I recall it doesn't slack off till about June. Maybe by then they have already dumped their Easter chicks ???

BTW because I was ignored and treated badly * when I started with BYC, I made up my mind to answer any posts and try to be kind, if I wasn't wise enough to be helpful.

* my early beginnings on BYC were to help my friend Chicken Lady (Arline)who was looking for something better than the feed store assortments. She asked me to find someone selling Silkies.

I wrote and told them I was trying to help my friend find such and such. I gave both her mailing address and name. A common ruse I know but, it was the truth. Arline didn't have a computer but I did. The two or three folks I wrote were as sarcastic as possible.

I persisted and found a very nice BYCer. She advertised in the Buy,sell,trade forum. Arline got a gorgeous buff silkie female. The Bycer kept her birds till 4-5 mos. of age to make a positive decision on gender & show quality. Not only did she charge next to nothing for the pullet, she also included a shipping container and paid shipping charges. She felt the pullet was not show quality and had a scarcity of would be buyers. Arline was thrilled.

And I developed an intense interest in BYC, and wanted to learn everything I could manage and then some. So Arline got frequent updates on care, feeding, etc. And so here I am....
 
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