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I went to the first Runefest and would have gone to the second, had I been in the country at the time I'm a member of the Runefest group on FB and I've been to some of the unofficial meet ups. We knew damn well that it would end up cancelled. We also knew that we'd give them Hell about SoF, if it had gone ahead.

Jagex totally cancelled Runefest because of SoF. They know it, we know it. Simple as that. But their ostrich heads in the sand have made it all go away.

I didn't realize that we'd sailed past the Golden Joystick Awards time! So much fuss about that in the past and not a murmur this year.

It's just so blasted convenient, particularly when I'm looking at the Gaels. Mine are generally in the Black Country during the last century, but then mostly in Wales. It's easy enough to nip between the two, particularly as there's a motorway and A roads right into Blaenafon.

But not when I have to cross the Irish sea to look at them! Much as I love Ireland.

Too funny. But I feel your pain too. I used Ancestry when they just started and haven't been back. I'm holding out!

I do understand the imperative to apply a layer of gloss to your brand, downplay the bad and publicize the good. But there is a line in the sand there. Once a company crosses it, it switches from good business sense to looking like they're fiddling while Rome burns.

That then becomes bull-headedness. Stubbornly refusing to admit that they were wrong, while the bad publicity builds.

As for threats, if you did make them to me, we'd have to settle it like civilized people. In the Wild or in Burthorpe Games Room. :p

You're welcome. <3

Thank you. :) I've certainly embraced it with open arms!

Thanks, just done so!

Good topic. I can understand how the internet could impact someone with a hearing impairment. There's more than one way to express a gregarious personality!

You are more than welcome. It's another case of a thread through time.

Hello Sis to you too! I do take a convoluted path sometimes but as someone said, how do you know where you are if you don't know where you've been.

I'm sure that Ancestry have those too. Want to chuck a name at me and I'll see?

Any suggestions for tracking down relatives / ancestors from Poland and Latvia?

Hey @katiem2, I really like the 6.5hp shop vac detachable blower feature. Blowing dust, dirt, grass clippings, and leaves from my driveway, garage and deck without firing up the gas blower. Saves me on what the gas and fuel mixture cost, makes a lot less noise, and best of all, no smellier 2-cycle fuel smoke smell lingering around the garage.:)

I have short dental roots from wearing braces so naturally I am very interested in the ultrasound massager. I do wonder however whether it actually will make the tooth roots long again. I don't understand how it would do that if there is now bone around the root. Might be too late for someone like me. But it will be interesting to see what happens with this technology over the years. Great article.

P.S. I am also one of the few born with zero wisdom teeth :-)

I remember a quote from a teen book by Betty Greene (I can't remember the title): "Why would a fruiting tree want to look like a sapling?" I'm not sure whether that quote is exact word for word, but it struck me when I read it and I think it applies to many of us. We are told by media, etc., that looking like a young girl who has yet to really experience life is preferable to looking like someone who has lived and loved and experienced. We are not all made as carbon copies of some "ideal" and, in fact, these ideals change over time. A thin woman in some cultures and in some times would be made to feel inferior and ashamed. None of us should be getting these messages that who we are is not okay and because of our looks we are unloveable.