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Happy belated new year

Posted 01 Jan, 2005 at 23:19 by matt in /System | Permanent link

I'd like to be the first member of the Goldenempires/DC community to post an inane "Happy New Year" message here. This I am doing... now.

I'm always a little melancholy around the holiday seasons these days. I get to see many people, often folks that I don't get to see any other time, but since that's what everyone else is doing too, often people are getting a little socialized out by this time in the cycle. This is significant for me mostly because I get very little socializing in during my quotidian life, whereas many of my friends are bright enough to live near their friends. So my main opportunity for seeing people often has me seeing them right when they want to stop seeing people.

Anyhow, I'm posting this in /System so I should probably have something in the way of official announcements or something. As far as this site goes, expect to see a couple of new authors added to the mix in the near future: Blue, Jason, welcome to the family. On the technical side of things, the implementation of some sort of comments facility is still the highest thing on the priority list; if I can't get one of the pre-written alternatives working right, then Kael and I will probably put our old perl skills to some use. So that should be exciting.

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