How is Everyone Holding Up?

TheDad
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:57:02 +0000

Wow TheDad. Are you the 1st class of graduating cc’ers?



No, Alummother, but the rocks were still cooling and ferns had yet to make their appearance, let alone anything crawling out of the sea and onto the land. Iirc, I remember when the 50,000 post mark was passed *for the whole board.*I think the board as a whole had been in existence maybe two years before I found it but these things start slowly.

I am not the longest posting poster still around, however. I went back through the archives and found posts by the community that was here when I got here and saw a few handles that still pop up occasionally.

I was once accused of narcissism because of “TheDad.” The explanation is far less interesting…one of the few dads posting was “ADad.” I simply took the next handle in that queue. “AnotherDad” followed shortly thereafter.

CC was a bit like a frontier town in those days and now it’s more like a metropolis. Many of the changes are positive but there are some things, and many people, both parents and students, I miss from the old days. Which for me, are all of about five years ago.

The parents were uniformly a good group back then. Some of the students, however–and there wasn’t a separate area for the parents–were real…umm…I guess “jerks” is about the strongest word that I can get past the profanity filters thought that is understated.

I hang around for various reasons and with grad/professional school around the corner, even though D is doing her own scouting & such, I still find tidbits to pass on to her that she appreciates. In some moods.

The object of this reminiscence is This, too, shall pass.