Atomictumor

Well boys and girls, past few days I’ve just been too friggin busy with ACES stuff, and workin, and keepin it real to do a lot of posting. I was hoping that you people would have things hopping around here, but apparently it just doesnt’ happen. Yes, I’m abusing my readers. I know you like it.

Still, something has to be done. Content must be provided, or heads roll. So, I’m going to ramble, because I’ve had triple the normal dose of coffee today, and my hands aren’t twitching yet.

Willowbrook had a “doughnuts for dads” thing this mornin, and MastaG and I made out like bandits. The beauty of it is that they had decent coffee (Starbucks, which is great if you don’t pay for it, but tastes kinda bitter after paying 4 bucks for a cup) and some tasty doughnuts that came from who knows where. It was a good time, and I appreciated the chance to do it. Particularly because I raised G’s ire last year for bowing out due to work requirements. Ooops!

Then at lunch, while hammering out some last minute work, I had another cup, and a few bites of spaghetti, and now here I am. Gibbering mad, high on coffee and work, eye twitching, and ranting about things like speghetti.

Good stuff.

Problem is, I haven’t had a chance to pay attention to all of my sources. I normally like to hit Netmom’s and AT2’s pages for the skinny, then run down the links on our sites (all quality pages, chosen for the springtime freshness and large bribery skills), and then I like to lurk out the OR forums, because its better to read now than its been for a while.
If maybe a bit one sided…

Still, I’ve been paying more attention to the forum than I have in the past, probably because it seems to be paying attention to me. We’ve gotten a few nods in the past few days, which is weird for me to view my dumb little site as a public thing. I mean, obviously its a public thing, but in the year (almost) its been around, we’ve gotten into a lot of people in Oak Ridge, which is totally more than I could have hoped for. Beyond that, I’ve gotten to meet some of the coolest people I’ve met by doing it.

Yep, the ol’ Tumor’s been good to me. But I’m digressing.

What the hell was my point? I’m starting to come down, and thats never a good thing.

Right, the Oak Ridger forums. See, I love the forums. I think its the coolest thing to have public participation on a neutral website. Thing is, a lot of people don’t know how to come off their best in an online discourse, and thats where some of the difficulties come up on the forums. I don’t think its a good idea to throw the baby out with the bathwater, as Daco feels, but then again I stopped regularly posting on the forums over a year ago, so that tells you something, I guess. I think an involved moderation staff would help tremendously, if Oak Ridger wants to do this thing, by god lets get the Oak Ridger editors and staff in there every once in a while to keep things straight, and apply some direction to the forums.

But, my forums fell flat, so I can’t really say much, can I?

Tell you what, since you’ve gone through and read so much of this, I’ll go ahead and share this with you… I was going to make a big thing out of this Atomictumor for office thing, but the ACES gig is too important to overshadow with this foolishness, so check out the campaign page I’ve been promising forever.

Just for you.

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