Posted by
paddy o'furniture on Monday, February 23, 2009 3:35:57 PM
...but February 22 marks the one year anniversary of Paddy's Pad. Time flies, no...?
In some ways, it seems like yesterday; in others, it seems as if this place has always been here. We have lost some charter members along the way....and they are missed.....but some were unable to grasp the concept of this little on-line lounge: a place to get away from the strife, kick your shoes off, fire up a cheroot, crack open a cold one and relax with friends.
We have picked up a few new friends along the way, and they have filled in for departed comrades nicely.
I still find great amusement in the fact that the people in who's company I most desire to be are in Ohio and Florida and Arizona and Colorado and assorted other locations around the country. In SoCal, I am surrounded by the dreaded "other."
Neo, Keith, Vpat, Clarity, Seehawk, Marystella, Col. Guano (apologies to those I may have missed), you are the charter members....the ones who remember the faulty first steps and feeble attempts to remain under the radar. We still could use some more of the company of Scarlet, Dusty and the dearly missed One Hot Minute.
I want to say thank you all for sticking with this post even through some very thin times. Things have changed since November, and this post has changed too....but I know we will all find our way back to the full-time strength in unity we had before the country decided to turn itself into a 19th century anacronism.
By the way, I have created a bumper sticker. It will be interesting to see if it catches on. It says simply: Change it back
Thanks to you all, and God bless.....
paddy