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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:31 am 
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:20 am 
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I suspect Exanderous has forgotten his logon details...


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:06 pm 
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Right. Found them.

I joined like in 2002, when the old board was still thriving and very much alive. Then we moved to Dragnix.net.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:33 pm 
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I cannot speak for the other ones, but I can say where I have been.

In 2012, as the board's attendance started to whither, I finally achieved my goal of commissioning as an Officer in the United States Army. I became a second lieutenant. They gave me my first duty assignment as Aide de Camp.

That was probably the worst mistake in my career. I was a general's assistant. They removed me from my position post haste, because I did not fit the mold they were hoping to see out of a 2nd LT. "You need to be in a Platoon with boots on the ground preparing for the front lines. That is where your talent should be placed." This came from a full bird colonel. They shipped my "squirrelly" self back into a combat engineer unit.

My first day, our commander kills himself, and I am forced to help collect his equipment back and sort through his TA-50. I knew this man when he was a lieutenant. His decision has a hold of grief over me to this day. His fiance and two kids were there while we sorted and cataloged his stuff, and it was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do; I collected the equipment the armory needed back while they were watching. I poured my sympathy over them, and they received it with understanding and poise. They nodded to let me know they did not harbor any ill will against me. The boys and I scraped up a bunch of money together, and we bought his helmet from the supply sergeant and gave it to his son. It was the least we could do...

There is so much more to this story, but I am going to spare you.

Last year I was sent to active duty to be certified as an ARMY Engineer Officer. the school was about 6 months long, so that took out a lot of time to come and see the boards. The school was challenging; mentally and physically tough does not begin to describe it. I graduated in 2013OCT.

Fast forward two years, Everything seemed to be doing okay. I messed up my shoulder once more and slipped a disk in my lower back, but overall, I was still doing well. I am still at the same combat engineer unit today. I am pretty happy about this.

Out of nowhere, we get railed by fate. Both of my step grandfathers (my biological ones are already dead) are placed on hospice. They have been given a few weeks to live at most. Doctors also find a tumor in her nasal cavity. They cut it out, but it grew back abruptly, which labels it as aggressive. The doctors also received some test results back from my mother, and they have given her less than 10 years to live.

To add to all of this this, my niece took her life. She committed suicide on the 25th of SEPT. This is also my birthday. Her body was cut down before I had even known what was going on. We are burying her tomorrow.

All of this happened within a span of two weeks.

My absence at the board has been noted. I miss what it used to be, and I miss the people I used to know. These events that have transpired in my life has made it difficult to do anything, really. If I could get an RP together, it may help, but I doubt it. Hang in there killers. The board is not dead while I still yet draw breath.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 8:35 pm 
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wow, sorry to hear all that has happened, especially all of those things happening around the same time. sending prayers during this time.

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Wow... sorry to hear about the family issues, Ex. :/ Those that serve our country shouldn't have to deal with loss like that, yet all too often they do.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 11:33 pm 
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:53 pm 
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Dang exx, your story makes my reason really suck in comparison. A string of bad updates leading me to recomission my old nook compared to all that... just wow. I dont think i could have gone through all that.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:10 am 
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Anyone ever get in contact with the other older members?

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I'm still lurking here and there. I used to talk to Makla outside the forums a lot. But the past couple of years, I haven't got a reply from him. I still text or e-mail him every once in a blue moon, but it's all radio silence from his end.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 7:55 pm 
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I stil lurk once in a while here too though I never had contact with anyone outside the forum. Except a couple on deviantart but I haven't been on there for years either...

Also I just realised I've been a member here for almost a decade and my god I feel old. Especially as I still remember signing up and everything like it was yesterday

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 1:47 pm 
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i'm still here as well. i check here almost daily actually

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:33 pm 
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Y U NO POST THEN?

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 1:59 am 
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i don't have anything to post.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 7:15 pm 
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Its simple! You just post about other people not posting! Its so easy that i just did it!

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 1:04 pm 
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bloody hell Ex, that's a rough time.

My absence from the board is simply a case of life taking me on a different journey. I've popped back from time to time, but it's not the same place it was when I first came here and rp'd.
I've trained to be a teacher, lived in Japan, the UK and now am living in Chicago as a science teacher.
I honestly only really check back here when I am reminded of the site as I scroll through my book marks.


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 11:01 pm 
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I'd love to say I have a good excuse, but I don't...

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I pop in exceedingly rarely, but I try to keep up. Work and my kids are the main reason I've not logged in over the last year or so. I'll try to log in a bit more often.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:15 pm 
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I've got nothing much to do all day - well, I do have stuff, I just don't do it... - so I've plenty of time to post. I've just got nothing much to say.

Maybe when the Pern trailer comes out I will.

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Pern trailer? As in the dragon riders of? That's getting a movie?

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:49 am 
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You didn't know?

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:36 pm 
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I didn't either, but then again I haven't been checking.

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No, I did not know. This is cool, though I was more expecting Dragonsinger to be the movie, or is that hoping? Whatever, a respectable dragon movie is being made, hooray!

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Remember, that's what we said about Eragon, and look how that turned out. :/

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