Been thinking about what to say here. I've been avoiding planning this diary for about a month because I don't want to be all me me me with such a bloody important election tomorrow.
Yes, another bloody important election, and they're all going to be bloody important until we can make the kind of low-level, systemic changes that the right-wing have been making for the past forty years, but I digress.
But ten years ago, I signed up here using the handle that I had used on other sites like Slashdot and the Champions RPG forums. I stopped reading Slashdot when I realized I could write the majority of the comments without bothering to read them or the article that they referred to first - but Slashdot got me solidly into Linux when I needed it to support my family.
I have no idea what the hell I was doing on the Champions boards.
Daily Kos, though, has been my home online for the last decade. You've provided a place for me and my family, and when the chips were down it was Kossacks and Wreck List guildies that came through for us. When our extended families turned their backs on us it was you that showed up, and the small things that I can force myself to do to help others are all interest payments on the debt I will owe you for the rest of my life.
So I guess what I want to say is thank you. Thank you for the past ten years, even the parts I wouldn't put George W. Bush through (although thinking about it, being homeless, penniless, and friendless just might do that man a world of good in the empathy department) as well as the good times.
There, we made it through. Just think how unbearably maudlin I'll be ten years from now.
As a reward, here's something I blatantly stole off the front page. Call or donate (surprise, I donated - I can't deal with talking to strangers on the phone right now, but I can pay to support people that can)
Sign up right now to make GOTV calls to Democratic voters in the toss-up states that will decide control of the Senate.
I'm sorry, I can't make phone calls, but I will chip in $3 to Daily Kos to help fuel Get Out The Vote efforts.