This should be post #4,000 for me. That's a lot of words.

Just for the heck of it, I decided to look up when I joined and see when my earliest posts were.. Looks like I joined in October 2005 and starting posting in September 2005. So that's almost 2 1/2 years.

It was fun from post #1, and with the very first post I started learning stuff. Now, 2 1/2 years later, it's still fun and I learn something new every week, at least. Friends made "on-line" have become "Real-Time" friends. The "Cloaked in Midnight Joan" is somewhat used to me going off and trying new things every couple of years. I think she's resigned to the fact that this "new thing"...kilts and Scottish traditions, is not going away any time soon.

X-Marks, y'all rock. Thanks for 2 1/2 years of fun, 90+ and growing X-Kilts, helping me get in touch with a big part of my heritage, and just generally being the most "together" online community I've ever been a part of, in ten-plus years of messing around on the internet.

Alan