As I sit here today, on this palindromic day of 1/23/21, gazing into my computer screen, noticing that this will be my 12,000th post, I reflect upon all that the Mandolin Café has been, done, and meant to me over the last thirteen years. Although I joined in a moment of despair, panic, and sorrrow (my trusty 1970s F-12, which had been through some thirty years of making music, traveling, and searching the inner and outer worlds, had been stolen, and I was doing everything I could think of to try and get her back), my experiences here led me through all kinds of unimagined paths. Onward and upward, ever so. And over the years, I found myself quite taken by the extraordinary wealth, knowledge, and eperiences of the members of this forum.
As time goes on and posts pile up, occasionally milestones appear. And they always do in the middle of a conversation about something to which the marking of this passage is quite irrelevant, where they produce a bit of distraction from that thread's topic. So I thought it would be nice to create a thread devoted to such niceties, where these milestones could be noted without detracting from other threads. Feel free to post your milestones here, perhaps with some reflection upon whatever else may pertain to such an achievement. As some have remarked, these sorts of milestones are random in nature, meaningless outside human perception. The example most often cited is a birthday, which marks a number of times a planet has completed an orbit around its focal point. Pretty random. And yet, we celebrate them, all the same.
So, celebrate and commemorate, in commensurate fashion, what you wish. Even if it ain't no part of nothing.
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