Happy Sunday everyone. I want to thank you for stopping by to hear my personal plea to support one of our own. One of the longest running features of DK is the wonderful "C&J Diaries" written by Bill Harnsberger. Yes, I could have said "Bill in Portland Maine", but there could be several Williams living there. Bill Harnsberger is a real life human, who has brought years of joy to many, many of us.
The C&J diaries have been and are the truest definition of community here. It is the watering hole where anyone can go and learn, laugh and even find love. Love? Follow me over the progressive squiggle for my "C&J" story.
Way back in the dark days following the 2004 election, many of us felt a darkness had descended upon the world. I was one of them. I was in a marriage that was in the process of ending. I was the father of a 5 year old girl, seeing her future being destroyed because she had two X chromosomes It was a very dark time for me.
I was cruising the intertubes looking to find some place of sanity when I stumbled across a little web site called "Daily Kos". I was like "Holly Shit!!!, I am not the only one in the world who feels this way." I was addicted and I was intimidated.
I could not wait to get home from work to read and digest what I was seeing here. I so badly wanted to join the conversation; but that damn intimidation factor. No one wanted to be on the brunt of a MSOC expletive filled response. That is when I noticed this diary that kept appearing on the right side of the page. Bored and lonely, I clicked on something called "Cheers & Jeers". That one clicked changed my life forever.
I watched the diary for months. The kids in there were having so much fun, and I wanted to play. I went and got myself a userid and typed many comments that I never posted. Then one day, I had to post.
• Virgin C&Js (3.98 / 52)
Cheers: to Bill and all of the irregulars. Those of us who are unable to post from work truly appreciate the snark.
Cheers: to me for losing my C&J virginity today. After 5 months of "lurking", I took the day off just to be able to post.
Cheers: to yesterday's mention of vinyl. However, I refuse to (...KaChunk..) to admit to having a large 8-track collection.
Cheers: to future C&J ERs. Snark is completely located in the DNA.
Me: "How did you miss 11? You know how to count to 1000."
5 year old daughter: "I missed it, I don't know how" this goes on for a week.
2 weeks later on the way home from kindergarten.
Me. "What did you learn today?"
Her (very sarcastically, with eye roll): "I learned how to count to 11!"
Jeers: to my USMC. Who the hell let that kid drown? WTF? May the ghost of Chesty Puller IP you for eternity. I do not care if that kid was the biggest sh*t bird in the Corps; it was your job to make him a marine. A**holes.
Final Cheer: to Bill and the Irregulars again. You make more peoples day than you will ever know.
"it was like that when I got here" Bart Simpson
"You may have been troll rated, but you're nobody until Bill deletes you."
by jdog269 on Fri Feb 18, 2005 at 10:43:35 AM EDT
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Cheers to delurking. Great C&J
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. Sherlock Holmes.
by Carnacki on Fri Feb 18, 2005 at 10:47:16 AM EDT
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o Delurking (4.00 / 10)
If I did not fear the corporate police, I would be hip deep in this lovefest everyday. I truly took the day off just to jump in the kidde pool. However the water displacement problem may be caused by excessive Mrs. Fields cookie consumption.
"it was like that when I got here" Bart Simpson
"You may have been troll rated, but you're nobody until Bill deletes you."
by jdog269 on Fri Feb 18, 2005 at 12:51:04 PM EDT
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• From the C&J Welcome Desk... (4.00 / 18)
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Excellent first C&J, jdog! Welcome to the kids' table. And thank you for the nice comment.
Don't be a stranger...
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by Bill in Portland Maine on Fri Feb 18, 2005 at 10:56:13 AM EDT
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That one post changed my life forever. A wonderful group of C&J regulars invited me out to the east coast to celebrate my 40th birthday. There, I met a wonderful human being who kept me sane during my divorce and a group of people that are friends in real life that I am blessed to know.
Because of C&J, I have friends in real life from coast to coast and everywhere in between. Friends that I can call for help and that can call me for help. You may not get the gifts I have received from C&J; but one never knows when you need something, where it will come from. All I know, if C&J is not here, we all lose a place where magic can happen.
If you can donate, I am asking you to please kick in what you can and yes, we do contribute monthly.
"What I do for myself is buried with me. What I do for others lives forever."
One time contribution: click here.
$5 monthly contribution: click here
$10 monthly contribution: click here
$20 monthly contribution: click here
To send a donation via snail mail, the address is: Bill Harnsberger, 16 Pitt Street, Portland, ME, 04103.
How did that one post change my life?
My daughter now has a person she calls "My really, really good friend" and means that from her heart.
My relationship with my ex is about as wonderful as any "EX" relationship can be.
Thank you Bill and thank you Sharon aka Shermanesq:
We just celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary ..
She ate most of the steak. :P
So don't buttfumble and help our Bill out if you can...
Peace & Love
Doggie