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05-22-2007, 05:52 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,071
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So . . . I'm back in business. And that avatar is not what you think: it's just a glow-in-the-dark mushroom. 
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05-22-2007, 06:02 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 331
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I'm in ....
 New poster known as Cruisinthru (AKA Lakerat Nomore), it was time for a new beginning since I couldn't seem to get in otherwise.
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05-22-2007, 06:40 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,022
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Lakerat/Crusinthru - and any others who have had to register under a new user name to get in - you can get your old user name back.
Send a PM to a forum admin ( http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/showgroups.php) requesting to merge your accounts (old and new). Be sure to include which name (old or new) you want to keep.
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05-22-2007, 06:41 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 159
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Hey, you guys think you got it bad  ? Guess what? I'm no longer Professor. I'm now "Education" And my password is some crazyass thing I will never remember. I asked the Forum staff to assist me as my old stuff wouldn't work. They did!!!!!! Sucks to be me. I guess I'm like the performer formerly known as Prince!!!!!
Sign me education (formerly known as professor)!!!!!!!!!!!!
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05-22-2007, 06:48 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Losing my whump
Posts: 22,708
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05-22-2007, 07:03 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,891
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geez! i tried to log in this morning and finally got a new password after i submitted the need help comment, and even tried a new name but never got the emails to my email acct to log in -
what a headache! the administrator's in-box must be full!
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05-22-2007, 07:03 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 10,125
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I find it interesting that even though people have taken different names, their post counts are still high.
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05-22-2007, 07:04 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,891
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wasted space
If it's possible - this new format sure wastes a lot of space - why do we need an inch for avatar/name and the post below...now threads are 10 pages long whereas before they were 2 or 3...
perhaps that is something that can be tweaked!
add to the list!
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05-22-2007, 07:43 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 445
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Yuck ... I never got the email to reset my password, so I reinvented myself ... at least now I get to check to see if my avatar loaded or not.
Edit .. ah, I see it did. The system kept telling me that it failed.
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05-22-2007, 08:09 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,501
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Egads!
We don't have any canned avatars to use. I loved using that beautiful woman that WAS my avatar.
Now, I have to be an ordinary mortal like the rest of you, instead of being utterly gorgeous.  I loved being a blonde. Blondes do have more fun (on the forum, anyway). Never been one before.
How annoying. I would look for and upload a photo of another stunning, enigmatic blonde, but it would seem more misleading if people didn't know it was just one of the selection of avatars provided by the board.
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05-22-2007, 08:36 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Houston
Posts: 218
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I've seen this kind of thing happen on several other sites and it usually causes a lot of problems for old users for a few days before all the kinks are worked out. Eventually though, most folks start to feel comfortable with the new software and I suspect that will happen here. Generally, some things work better after changes but there are usually some losses also; that seems to be the case here. Hang in there, everybody.
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05-22-2007, 08:42 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Chicago
Posts: 13,186
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Gone all day and now home only to discover things seem to have changed........ Too many choices.... 
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05-22-2007, 08:51 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SW Ohio
Posts: 14,404
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This is GREAT!!
Ahh, the new software is SUPER! Okay, so the new software spreads the posts out over more distance so they are harder to read. And, the software apparently lacks the navigation tools we all found very useful ("New Topics", "My Previous Topics"). And Janet had to tweak a few things for me just so i could log in. Oh, and the PM box is now overloaded. It is still great because it has been imposed externally for our benefit, and I've been told that it is good! In short--this has reminded me again about one of the things I hated most about the workaday world. And I'm happy because these things happen far less often now that I've (largely) jumped clear of that environment.
To gain still more joy, I'll hit my thumb with a hammer now, then relish the warm feeling of remembering how good it feels most days when I don't do that.
Please--everyone! Remember (to call on the immortal spirit of Voltaire) "Everything is for the best in this best of all possible upgrades."
samclem
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05-22-2007, 09:10 PM
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#34
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
Posts: 9,296
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Not that anyone really gives a flitter, but I'm back as bbbamI! 
I also like this....> 
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05-22-2007, 10:58 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Los Angeles area
Posts: 329
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Anyone found a way to change the login timeout? I'm used to navigating back to the site every hour or so on some days, and now I'm forced to login again each time.
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05-22-2007, 11:01 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: San Carlos, CA
Posts: 639
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You can turn off the avatars in the 'edit options' section.
Peter
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05-23-2007, 12:08 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
Posts: 26,860
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Originally Posted by Want2retire
...it would seem more misleading if people didn't know it was just one of the selection of avatars provided by the board.
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Aw, bummer, NOW you tell us!
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05-23-2007, 05:51 AM
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#38
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 1,677
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Wow I'm gone a few days and someone rearranges the furnature, changes the drapes and and paints the walls, interesting and will take some getting use to.
Carolyn
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05-23-2007, 06:34 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 1,490
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old dogs, new tricks
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05-23-2007, 07:47 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 227
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Ehh,,,, all these old dogs will be brought along........ granted it will be kicking & screaming!
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