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If you'd spent as many 60-second timeouts waiting for the site as I have, you'd be talking to a shrink rather than a regular doctor. :-)

Max, I'm so sorry for your loss. I sent the following poem to a friend when she lost her son. May it give you some comfort.

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One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.

In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.

This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,

“You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”

The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”

-- Mary Stevenson

Or put it in the Groups menu at the top of the page as Search Groups.

Absoletely no rush. Enjoy your vacation. I'm busy ripping my hair out over Joseph's latest chapter. If you never hear from me again, it's because the chapter bored me to death.

Sol, what about Lucy's suggestion of searching across forum topics (or even content)? A simple results page of links, organized by groups, would probably do.

There's also the Additional Feedback forum. You can start a thread in that group (or any other one) dedicated to that novel. The reviewers I interact most with are members of the Medieval group, so each of us has a thread there, even though some of the books aren't even Medieval. It's messy, but it works.

Had you said something about placing one's head inside another body part, it would have been funnier, I think.

If a key element of this series is about the end of an era, then I strongly suggest making that a more obvious possibility. Give us a sense of that to carry us through the series. Something that binds the whole series together from the beginning, which is what I keep bugging you for from the outset of Acts.

I've finally switched to the correct first book, so I'm really looking forward to understanding this story as intended.

I missed all of those clues. Either I'm duh! (quite likely), or they weren't as obvious as you think. Your other readers would be a better judge.

Are we talking diarrhea or gunfire here? :-)

There is still something not right about the way the Visit Your Groups control works on the home page. Sol, you said the links to topics go away when it's been read. I'm not seeing that at all. It behaves as if there is a timeout on the links, but without a predictable amount of time. I added comments to several threads in the medieval group today, and they showed up in the control right after that, but then disappeared only a few hours later. Other times, I've seen thread links displayed in the control for much longer periods of time.

Is it that the links go away when the *originator* of the thread has read it? That might explain the unpredictable behavior I'm seeing.

Thanks.
Dirk

EDIT: Case in point, this post. After I left it, I saw the link appear on the home page. I went in, read it, and then came back to the home page. It's still there. I'm fine with that, as long as it's there long enough for regular (daily) visitors on the site to read them.