Senile Texas Aggie - comic relief for the rest of you

[Baymule]

I am now being stalked by @Senile_Texas_Aggie. Friday night and Saturday, we had our grand daughters, ages 11, 3 and 2. Saturday night I opened my computer to 208 alerts! It was 6 or 7 pages! Tonight it was over 130.

Well, soon you will know all my secrets that I share on the forum.....so I guess they really aren't secrets. LOL I'll try to make sure I get on BYH every night so I can keep up with you!

 

[greybeard]

I am now being stalked by @Senile_Texas_Aggie. Friday night and Saturday, we had our grand daughters, ages 11, 3 and 2. Saturday night I opened my computer to 208 alerts! It was 6 or 7 pages! Tonight it was over 130.

Well, soon you will know all my secrets that I share on the forum.....so I guess they really aren't secrets. LOL I'll try to make sure I get on BYH every night so I can keep up with you!

I've never really understood all that....wanting or choosing to be 'alerted' anytime anyone did this, or that, or the other. My current alerts'? zero, and I prefer it that way.

All the rest of the 'lert options are unchecked as well.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Miss @Baymule, you are right, I am stalking you. I am getting close to being finished. And Mr. @greybeard, I guess I need not worry about driving you crazy with alerts whenever I like one of your posts (which is quite often ).

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[RollingAcres]

I am now being stalked by @Senile_Texas_Aggie. Friday night and Saturday, we had our grand daughters, ages 11, 3 and 2. Saturday night I opened my computer to 208 alerts! It was 6 or 7 pages! Tonight it was over 130.

Well, soon you will know all my secrets that I share on the forum.....so I guess they really aren't secrets. LOL I'll try to make sure I get on BYH every night so I can keep up with you!

When STA is done stalking Baymule, I don't know who's going to need counseling/a psychiatrist more.

 

[Baymule]

When STA is done stalking Baymule, I don't know who's going to need counseling/a psychiatrist more.

Definitely--HE IS!!!

 

[Baymule]

Miss @Baymule, you are right, I am stalking you. I am getting close to being finished. And Mr. @greybeard, I guess I need not worry about driving you crazy with alerts whenever I like one of your posts (which is quite often ).

Senile Texas Aggie

I gave you links to threads I made on www.theeasygarden.com sister site to BYH. Are you going to read them too? LOL

 

[greybeard]

And Mr. @greybeard, I guess I need not worry about driving you crazy with alerts whenever I like one of your posts

No, you don't, and to be honest, when it was initially announced that the 'like' function was coming to BYH, I voiced opposition to it, stating that it most likely would become meaningless as likes would become 1 (or both) of 2 things.
1. A junior high schoolish/MySpace popularity contest.
2. So over used that it would be little more than the much maligned and ridiculed 'participation' trophy.

It was not long after the function was implemented, that I received 2 communiques (e-mail) making a tit-for-tat or quid pro quo offer..they would like all my posts they read if I would do the same for their posts. I declined.
It is obvious, than many people as a matter of course simply 'like' a very very high % of the posts they read, regardless of content-I have seen some garner a 'like' for nothing more than clicking a emoticon..a smiley.
I've seen people submit a generic reply, the next person simply state "I agree" and the member submitting "i agree" be awarded several 'likes' for that well thought out, highly researched 2 word submission.

I admittedly award very few 'likes'. A person has to go above and beyond the general chatter for me to do so..solve a problem, find a solution.
(It's not that I dislike most posts (I don't) ..........it's just that if every single post gets a 'like', (and it seems most do ) then, what's the point?)

 

[Bruce]

I kinda want to "like" your post @greybeard but I don't want to offend But I agree with it. I "like" posts that have merit either for their informational text, humor or sentimental content.

Tit for tat "likes"?? I've never seen that here or on BYC and would have turned it down as well. What nonsense.

 

[greybeard]

I kinda want to "like" your post @greybeard but I don't want to offend But I agree with it

I am neither offended nor enthralled with 'likes'. I just pay no personal attention to them or place any value on them but have found the phenomena very perplexing, tho predictably so.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Miss @Baymule,

I finally finished all of the threads you provided, both on BYH and TEG. Even though I have asked the BYH forum to notify me whenever you post something, I missed several of the threads you started, such as when you lost Parker. I am sorry for your loss and sorry that I didn't know about it at the time, even though I was already a member of BYH by then.

As for who needs to see a therapist, I am sure that @Latestarter can provide you with the name of the therapist he is seeing. They should already be familiar with STASS, so will be able to help you as well. I am seeing my psychiatrist tomorrow, and I will tell her where the STASS came from, and I will also tell her that I stalked someone who turned out to be crazy! One of the reasons that I read @Bruce's journal was to prepare me for reading your posts, since he is your protege in humor. (He learned well from you, I might add.)

Seriously, I very much appreciate your postings, sharing with others what is going on in your life. I often will "like" some of your sad posts, not because I am happy that something tragic has happened, but because you are willing to share it with us, even when it seems hard to do. It takes a lot of courage to share a loss with others, as it makes you vulnerable to people making fun of you in your pain. Yet you, and others here on the forum, often do share such feelings, and I am grateful that you entrust us with those feelings. I hope to be able to share comfort with you in your time of need, and should the time come, that I be able to share my losses and receive comfort from you and others at that time.

Mr Greybeard and Mr. @Bruce, regarding the "like"s of your postings, I must confess that I have "like"d a lot of your posts, usually because they were witty, very helpful, and sometimes simply sharing good news with us, such as your mentioning, Bruce, about your daughter getting accepted into college.

To the others on BYH -- just because I haven't started reading your journals doesn't mean you are safe. It's just that my lips will only move so fast when reading the postings. But your time is coming! So start looking for a therapist trained in STASS right away!

Senile Texas Aggie