LOL! I hate dealing with hair. Sometimes bald looks pretty good to me.

& don’t you hate that kids can be happy and active when they’re sick? When mine was down and out lately (and so was I for a few days), I’m flat-out, eyes half lidded, and she’s painting, asking to go the playground, dancing (with a fever and vomiting)… finally, I moaned, “Would you please just look sick!”

Good luck to the urchins and their suffering parents. Wear masks.

I already did the Groucho emoticon here.

Later,

Kelly

Urchins are so-so… Owen just barfed, but he’s happy still… ick.

-Brett

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Seth… I’ve seen him speak. I think he already worked his butt off. It’s gone.

If I thought I could do that to my butt, I’d work like Seth.

Wait a minute, I already work my butt off, and darn it, it’s still here. Something’s wrong.

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P.S. Sorry to hear about your diseased urchins. Hope they’re feeling better.

Of course – storytelling as a profession predates a lot of the modern “bloodsucking” professions like financial advisor, investment banker, insurance salesman etc. – our triiibe needs people who can tell good stories.

Seth’s a cool cat, but I’ve got one up on him, you see, I know where his purple cow lives, and if he doesn’t send me *one million dollars* right now, I’m going to barbecue old Bessy

Seriously though, he’s a clever guy – like most of us. And an inspiration, showing that ordinary clever people who work their butts off have a chance – not a guarantee – but a chance, to be just like him, if that’s what they want to do.

Purple cow or not.

-Brett

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You mean knowing all the lines to Gigi, The Philadelphia Story, and Taps might finally be marketable? Cool triiibe. Get right to work on that, because I’ve got esoteric knowledge in spades. Wish I could give it away, sometimes…

Seth knows how to reinvent a term, that’s for sure. Look how he remade languishing purple cows, kept us all from forgetting our Cracker Jack days with a free prize inside… and now triiibe. You instantly get it, but it’s his now, and you can’t have it.

There’s almost a post in that thought. Hm.

Later,

Kelly

That’s true – we are building our own little triiibe aren’t we? One that has the potential to be much stronger, because we’ve grown together and to know each other. I was saying to Steph by email that if we somehow pooled all of our knowledge, even the eclectic stuff that doesn’t seem to have much marketable value to us individually, we’d be a force to be reckoned with together.

You’re certainly not a slacker, though – I think it is *you* who have been pushing *me*, I’m just trying to catch up with you, and milady, you’re fast on your feet

-Brett

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I missed you in all the Friarness up there. Sorry!

“…create, impact, absorb and live.” Words to live by. Thanks for that.

Stephen,

Thanks for delurking. Always glad to have another voice here.

I agree with Brett—I think triiibes are what we all look to gather around us, every day (maybe especially online because it’s so easy to find truly kindred spirits when you have the globe to choose from). Seth always makes you see it in a new light, though.

Brett,

The neat thing about naturally-occurring triiibes (can I call online communities “naturally-occurring”?) is that we know each other pretty well, having evolved into community over time, and we push each other to create. Like you lately. I feel like such a slacker when I read what you’ve been writing, and I just can’t live with that—so I try harder. Heck with the uncertain future. I want to be my best me *now* because of my RL and online buddies.

Later,

Kelly

Really? Interesting… I’ll keep my eyes open.

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Yes, Triiibes… I missed out on the initial sign-up, sadly. Nothing says we cannot create our own though, and maybe that’s the point.

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