The last time I was really "on" the computer was last Thursday. Since then my middle son's b-day, and Christmas weekend, and this week of NO SCHOOL but plenty of doctor's appointments (to take advantage of NO SCHOOL - yeah my kids luv me /snark - have been keeping me busy.
Plus, I figured this week I could take a break from politics and just deal with family . . . so I've done just that. This means phone calls to Denver and Pakistan, going out for a movie, a birthday celebration and playing 9 games of Pandemic (a cooperative board game where all the players work together to cure the world before it's over run by 1 to 4 diseases.). Well actually we played more but beat the game in the 9th try and then again in the 10th.
Then we got super cocky and decided to try the hardest variant and well... uh ... the world has a significantly fewer human population now. ;-) :-D
Actually the first few times we played my mind kept replying the credit scenes from "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" as cards were pulled and breakouts happened that we couldn't contain and they cascaded. It's a really good game and easy to learn, you should try it!
Anyway you get the picture. Other than for email I really haven't been checking in at Dailykos, or anything else.
So it came as a shocked to me that I logged in here and was greeted with no add and a "tag" that said "Good or Great News!" I don't remember the exact wording because my brain was trying to comprehend what I was seeing.
Yes it was slow. well not so much slow as desperately trying to change gears and finding no teeth in the cog to grab.
So I fumbled around a bit . I didn't see an email telling me about this, and they say they send an email.
I finally checked my profile subscription page. . . WOW! Someone gave me a gift subscription.
I went back to my email and searched through it with a fine tooth comb . . and I found it
Subject: You have received a Lifetime Gift Subscription to Daily Kos
Date: Dec 12/23/11 10:11 AM
HOLY COW! Someone has been waiting since Dec 23 to see some reaction from me, or at least give the cosmos (since it was an anonymous gift giver) a "Thank YOU" and it's Dec 28 already.
Whoever you are that gave me this, you have blown me away! I had intended to get a life time subscription this week, today actually, but this feels soo much better. And I will be paying this forward!
Thank you, whoever you are (gawd, I love this community) you make me feel like dancing!
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