That's a strange thing you picked up on.
Unfortunately, I am sorry to disappoint you, but where I am is not a habitat for orangutans despite the nightsafari nick.
But, I had three big triggering events to start writing in this forum, the 1st was my 1st post. The 2nd was, sad to say the departure of an orangutan. I can write a long essay about forums and how they live and die by the quality of their contributors. This forum has served me in many ways throughout the years and its contributors, in 1 way or another have brightened my day, even when you are flaming each other and even when I think some should be locked up in IMH. The orangutan did contribute a lot to SBF and I watched his departure and it felt an emptier place, so I resolved to make up for it, because who knows somewhere out there is a lurker just like me who's day is made better from reading this stuff.
However, I want to be the first to say that while I am trying to contribute, I am not a replacement for the jungle monkey and
I for one would welcome his return if he did read this, even if we start flaming each other and we both think the other should be locked up in IMH. Life is too short for grudges. Before you know it, we all uplorry.
The final triggering event strangely enough was nothing big, but it was because of nayr69sg, I think he's the doc in Canada. This is personal, so if nayr69sg is reading this, please pm me and I will share it with you.
Last and definitely not least is scroobal if I spelled his nick correctly. It's not a triggering event,
but the whole big reason I started reading SBF in the 1st place. If it weren't for you, I would not be here. I would still be alive, but I would not be this happy. Again, this is personal and if scroobal is reading this, please pm me because your advice has made a huge difference in my life. Even if you don't, know that I feel a lot of gratitude for the advice you've given here and by extension I've benefited from.
I wanted to talk to the last two privately, but their profiles don't allow it.
sorry for the TL. If this belongs in a different place, mods please move accordingly.