Very nicely written BC. It was nice to read your memories and bring back some of mine. Your feelings about meeting new people certainly covered mine as well, always wanting to put a face to the name.
However, the award to Idjit was from me, not Pooga. It was to commemmorate his 5,000 hits on the site and he was rewarded with 5,000 pennies. It was supposed to be the start of a "5,000 Hit Trophy" that was to get passed on to the next recipient, but was never finished.....Idjit, Where are you on that? I know, putting that many pennies into a trophy makes it very heavy to send around the country. Well it seemed like a good idea at the time.

That's my soapbox story!