Is it Sunday again already?!? Man, that week just flew by! I failed to give Nil the more detailed response I promised and I still haven't been very good about commenting (after a, for my standards, spectacular guilt-ridden outburst last Sunday/Monday). This post will at least correct one of those issues.
edit:In a major way. Which isn't necessarily a good thing... :wacko: Please allow me to apologize in advance...
Rennslaer, your comment requires a little specific attention. I would like to, however politely, disagree with you. I realize I do you an injustice by not reading
Fire Warms, but I've seen the looming shadow of that opus on the Vicky forum. Have you broken 2,000 posts already? That thing is a monster (which I mean in the nicest possible way, of course
)!!! There is truly NO WAY that I could read it in four days only. I'm guessing two weeks of solitary confinement would do the trick, but unfortunately I don't have that time available. I do realize, based on your Colorado AAR and the general caliber of your comments, that I would be doing myself a favor to read
Fire. Consider it on my to-do list (right up there with 'find a bigger apartment' and 'get a pay raise'
).
Generally speaking, I would like to thank everyone for their kind comments. Seeing whom they're coming from, I consider myself lucky to read your collective works and/or exchange thoughts on myriad topics, ranging from the historical to the hysterical.
Should I ever find the time/courage/story to start my own writings here, it's a nice thing to know I could, at the very least, get some courtesy calls (until people realize I didn't write before for good reason
).
Anyway, this is not the place for me to dwell on my own germinating AAR ideas (I'd like to do a Byzantium AAR. There's only about a hundred of them currently active). This is the time and place for me to nominate the next Fan of the Week. I've spent a fair amount of time pondering whose name to put up. I thought Duke of Wellington would be a good choice. Or Jwolf. Or GhostWriter. Or the old standbys: coz1, stnylan, Draco, Storey even. And then I read the listing in the first post of this thread and realized they'd all been honored already. That's not to say that all of them are not worthy of seconds (or thirds. Or fourths, in the case of Storey), but I prefer to recognize someone new. So, a-trawling I went, through HOI, CK, Victoria and EU forums. Last time round, I nominated Rensslaer because he's active in many different sub-forums. What can I say, I like it when people branch out.
But today, I couldn't immediately find anyone. I guess I tend to fraternize in my own little circle of mostly EU2 posters. I kept looking though, until I got distracted. By a little thing called the AARland 'Advocate'. I realized I'd never read it before, which turned out to be a mighty shame. Fine writing on a variety of relevant forum and game topics and a wonderful layout to boot. I encourage all of you to check it out if you haven't done so yet. Like the Gazette before it, it's one of the nifty 'extras' that make these forums so worthwhile.
All this leads me rather nicely to my nomination for Fan of the Week. In scanning the HOI2 forums, I noticed his name a lot. He has a few AARs under his belt and he leaves comments left and right. And he is, of course, the main force behind the Advocate. Furthermore, he has never been recognized before in this particular thread.
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My fellow forumites, please extend your congratulations to
Singleton Mosby as the latest Fan of the Week!