My best mental image of the wonderful person I loved calling my friend here at Daily Kos Gus community.
As I recall, despite my absence here in the community for a long spell, my friend had a terrible time kicking the cigarette habit according to her writings on the horrible habit of nicotine at Gus. It strucked me as odd that Gus is nowhere to be found on the boards as I read daily.
My instinct told me to click on my friend`s profile and to my horror found that she had not been active for 445 day, and my heart sank! Naturally, I am lost. I have to say to myself that this is what I get for staying away from the community and those who I sincerly felt close enough to consider a friend. Both flumptytail and I engaged in looking ahead to our old age — as if we really needed to do that. Both of us made a pact to live to be one hundred years old. So far I`m still here and my pact stands.
My heart is misbehaving sending signals to my head. I am wondering if my friend just got tired of it all and checked in her chips. Or, I`m hoping, oh I`m hoping that my friend just did what those in the Gus group appear to have done. It appears that Gus is no more. I found the last diary was written GUS: Switching to Vape Thursday June 29, 2017. According to my calculator, its been one year since Gus has been on the boards. what sent chills down my spine is that flumptytail is not in that dairy with a comment, something that I found unbeliveble.
I met some very wonderful folks when I used to hang out in the smoke rooms at Gus. Each person had their own unique story to tell about the hazzards of smoking and how they were battling the habit. I come with complete confidence that someone will give me good news about my friend. On the other hand, if I missed the bad news, again, this is what I get.
By the way, my pact to live to be a hundred years old looks real good. Old folks like me find it uncomfortable spraying the daily kos boards with stuff pertaining to how old we are. As best as I recall, in the ten plus years I`ve shuffled around this community, I have only told “one (1)” person, my true age. The response from that person was that my age was a “young number”. And that is a fact.
Maybe I should have started this dairy telling the true reason I recalled my friend flumptytail. Not too long ago, I indeed wrote a short diary about a stray black cat that had been hanging out in our back yard garden. I wrote that my wife and I wanted to adopt the cat. I even asked for advise on how to make this wild alley cat be unafraid of my presence everytime I place his food bowls as close as I could. At first, the cat would run and stay away as far from me as possible until it saw that I went back inside of the house. Through the window I would see the cat come to the bowls to eat and drink.
My friend flumptytail was a cat lady, as I recall. I mean she had names and spoke to her cats as if indeed they were family members. Well, I guess everyone here thinks that way too. I am begining to feel like this particular cat in my yard is one of us here at home. I make sure he has his food on time. I now am working to make this cat come into my house so come next winter, he will be warm and loved as it should be.
Flumptytail, if you read this, wherever you are, thanks for all the wonderful moments we spent joking back and forth at Gus.
If I missed the bad news. Please be gentle when you break them to me. I really apologize for staying away so long. I am just hoping that things are not like they were during my times when I used to post regularly here and that my assumptions to bad news are unfounded.
The only thing left for me to wish is that the Gus group is still alive and I somehow got lost in the fog that is today`s political arena. Finally, if I can have this diary published and posted on the Gus community, I will appreciate it. If that cannot be the case, my appreciation will be no less.
TALK ABOUT BAD NEWS, being MIA for so long and so on and on. When I clicked to publish this diary, yep, I got an error! [We were unable to update this story..] so yeah, I`ve been away to damn long. I will try to have it publish a bit later.