This will be short - and might not even break the fold...
This very well be my last diary or other entry here at DKos -- but not for the usual set of reasons. While sometimes irritated with the flame-wars. And truly befuddled by some of the non-reality based pontificating that occurs here. And sad that I don't see Bonddad or Blackwaterdog here anymore, those issues are all "minors" as they say in my former home.
Come below for the actual reason this is my TTFN diary.
While my current UID is 104696 I have actually been around DKos since the days of UIDs in the 30K range - and in fact my original UID is somewhere in that ballpark. But my screen name was very identifying, and because of my job I felt that being identified with certain posts - especially ones related to health care issues might not be the best thing to do. So I took on the moniker of "Pinecone" as a reference to my locale here in the Sandhills region of North Carolina.
But now, I am preparing to leave this little neighborhood and move to a much larger community (but one that like NC, went red to blue in 2008). I will arrive in my new home in a few days, and in keeping with a user name befitting my location, I will be ditching "Pinecone" and showing up as a yet unnamed "newbie" with a UID somewhere north of 220,000.
So - as I suggested above, while aloha means farewell - and in this case farewell to Pinecone, it also means hello - in this case to all of you again in a few days with a new name.
And since User Names and UIDs seem to live forever (will they survive the transformation to DKos4?), at some point when I am no longer employed in the health care industry, I may even show back up in my original guise, with my original low digit (relatively speaking) UID.
So, for now, aloha and hasta la vista. :-)