h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi Recumbentman

We have never spoken/written directly to each other. I made you a friend some months ago because I found some of your contributions in different threads funny and/or interesting.

Having someone on the friend's list is like a bookmark to interesting places - and I'm too old to remember everything

The sidekick is that I'm notified of different researchers' journal entries - and sometimes they give me interesting conversations.

Now I'm curious to know why you're leaving - and just not *not* logging on for a while.

What were your intentions with signing up?

Sorry if I am a bit incoherent.

I work at home and live far from friends and family. I use h2g2 like a canteen or a pub. Somewhere to go and get inspired, have a good laugh or a serious and (to me) meaningful discussion. To meet people.

But sometimes I think that maybe it takes too much of my time: I feel responsible towards certain threads and the people in them plus I need their acknowledgement of me as wise and sensitive human being.

I ask myself sometimes: Is it just an illusion that people care and need my contribution.

Basically I think that most of the people I've met here inspire and enrich each other.

I would like to hear your opinions.

P.S. I was au-pair in Dublin when I was 18, married an Irish guy, had a child with him. We divorced and he is now dead.

Dublin has a special place in my mind although I haven't been there for 29 years. My daugther is master of art in Irish Politics from Queens University in Belfast and I visited Eire and Nothern Ireland for two short days when she graduated - or what it is called - the ceremony with cloaks, hats and delivering of documentation for education.

I'm Danish - a freelance journalist.

Hello Tartaronne -- my thoughts on joining up here were much the same as yours; it looked like a fascinating and well-organised place and indeed it is.

I'll talk to you again when I return, maybe in a month.

I'll be looking forward to that.