I'm back again.

Several things have changed since 2012, so you may luck out with how much I post.

I have a job now.  Finally.  I work at a pretty awesome museum on the South Side of Chicago.  Been there for about a year.  If you're from this area, you probably know which one I'm talking about.  Since I am working, my time is divided between keeping everything together around this place, working, and helping raise the Boy.

Rice Cube did graduate with his PhD and is now a teacher.  The hours are long and tiring, but he's pretty kickass about it all.  I couldn't do that, because I'd wind up murdering the little bastards before the day ended.  He has the patience of a saint, though, so more power to him.

Yeah, Rice Cube and I are still married.  Scary.

I'm not sure why I came back.  Maybe I felt bad because this was the place where a lot of my real life came together, and I hate to see it drowning in suck and whining.

Or maybe I'm just a shyt stirrer.  You decide.

Several things have changed since 2012, so you may luck out with how much I post.


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A scouting craft soon entered our solar system. It detected several broadcast signals, and routed the strongest one (WABC-TV in New York) to a distant team of anthropologists — who then found themselves watching a first-run episode of the hit sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (the one in which Arnold Horshack joins a zany youth cult).

Before I get into what happened next, I should mention that music is the most cherished of the forty so-called Noble Arts that Refined beings revere and dedicate their lives to. It is indeed viewed as being many times Nobler than the other thirty-nine Arts combined. And remember — their music sucks.

The first alien Kotter watchers initially doubted that we had music at all, because everything about the show screamed that we were cultural and aesthetic dunderheads. Primitive sight gags made them groan. Sloppy editing made them chuckle. Wardrobe choices practically made them wretch.

And then, it happened.

The show ended. The credits rolled, and the theme music began. And suddenly, the brainless brutes that they’d been pitying were beaming out the greatest creative achievement that the wider universe had ever witnessed.

Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back. On Earth, these lyrics were a humble cue to hit the bathroom before What’s Happening!! came on. But everywhere else, they were the core of an opus so sublime that the Refined League reset its calendars to start counting time from the moment it was first detected. And so, October 13, 1977; 8:29 p.m. EST became the dawning moment of Year Zero to the rest of the universe.


1976?  2004?  2012?  2014?  It's Year Zero inthe00s.  Welcome back.

Welcome Back Jessica. :)

Welcome back!

Hey..

Been reading all your health issues on fb...sucks.  But welcome back...whether it's a long or short stay...
The boards miss the spice you add

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Thank you thank you!  I owe so many people karma for the welcome back stuff.

I'll smite you all later though. ;D

Welcome back from me as well, although I've never had the feeling you were gone, with FB and all.

Thank you thank you!  I owe so many people karma for the welcome back stuff.

I'll smite you all later though. ;D


I remember when you used to go on a "smite-a-thon" and smite like 50 people..  ;D ;D
Wonder if you have the guts to do it again  :P :P :P :P :P

do it...but if I ain't included in the fudge, you will have to suffer karma from me

Thank you thank you!  I owe so many people karma for the welcome back stuff.

I'll smite you all later though. ;D
You have been missed!  But I still get to lather in the froth of your awesomeness and that is a good thing! 

Thank you thank you!  I owe so many people karma for the welcome back stuff.

I'll smite you all later though. ;D


Woohoo!  I miss the smite bombings.  Heck, I think that's where most of mine came from. ;D

Welcome back, Jess! Glad to hear you and the hubby are doing ok.

Aw, hell no.

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Welcome back.


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I'm still new and don't know you of course, but greetings then! Welcome back.  ;D

Aw, hell no.

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I'm still new and don't know you of course, but greetings then! Welcome back.  ;D 


You'll get to know me.  I've been here off and on since 1999, usually causing trouble. :D

Thanks for the welcome back, gang.  I'll probably be here less since the busy season is upon us at the museum.  Hopefully it's busy.  I need the money. ;D

You'll get to know me.  I've been here off and on since 1999, usually causing trouble. :D

Thanks for the welcome back, gang.  I'll probably be here less since the busy season is upon us at the museum.  Hopefully it's busy.  I need the money. ;D

1999? I didn't even know this place existed then!

1999? I didn't even know this place existed then!


It's been around for 16 years.

Hiya Jessica.  :)

Welcome back to the boards, I've missed your great sense of humour.

Brilliant to hear Rice has graduated and become a teacher.  8)