I'm lucky to be in a good situation all around. Just wish I had taken care of myself better to get here.

Doing well, all things considered. Had to close down my arcade, as the mall I was in completely tanked the last couple of years I was there. No foot traffic at all anymore. That gave me the opportunity to seek better employment though, and I found a fantastic job that pays really well in the Milwaukee area.

Fell in love with an amazing woman and married her. Bought an old but nice house back in 2016, thank goodness. Best decisions I've ever made.

If the USA wasn't about to go tits-up with the rest of the planet soon to follow, I'd be ecstatically happy right now.

living in downtown KL been with my partner for nine years we have two perfect cats

got my **** together enough to slog through grad school and get my masters in political science, currently doing a mix of freelance editing work + comms/operations for a refugee ngo

could be worse I guess!

i feel anxious but that's a standard for me nowadays

36, will be 37 in January, Been married for 5 years, together for 7 almost 8 years. We have a son arriving in May. I worked for local casinos for a decade then got the hell out and drifted until I got a position as an IT for a small local company. Been there almost 4 years now and I wear at least a dozen hats lol.

I didn't keep up with many people from the internet forum days. ProtomanJMB and AKDemon are the only 2 I did. Wish I had followed up with the rest of yall, but at least we're here now .

i guess i should be more specific about my situation in life...

fell into a severe mental illness (illness on both sides of the family, good times) and kinda crashed. had to move back in with my mother and am only a few credits away from an associate's degree. :>

came out as trans a few years back, hopped onto hormone therapy, found a polycule of other transwomen that i fell into

life could be worse but it sure as **** could be better too

Congrats on being close to your associates! it took me 9 years to get one but still counts! I started my first college course the day my first child was born, from the delivery room. Finished it a year AFTER securing the first career-path job of my life. Turns out the skills developed while hosting/designing/maintaining forums and websites back in the mid 00's plus an almost-degree were juuuuuust enough to get me into IT with a major company.

It's nice to catch up with everyone's stories. Looks like none of us have been strangers to hardship, but I'm glad we made it out.

I had some very interesting experiences in my life, with wild perspectives and activities mixed in. I think it's goofy to say I could write a book about it, but I probably could. Learning humility was pretty cool. Other stuff has been a burden. Life is awesome.

I've been with my boyfriend for almost 8 years and we live a good life. Party hard, love harder.

I have social media a across the internet. Watch me lean into pink insanity. Commission me for voice work or something?

Everything real good

"Born on a mountain, raised in a cave, trucking and ****ing is all I crave" - Poco

Life sucked for a while but it's pretty good now. Living in Japan away from all the madness happening in the US.

Man, you were one of my verrrrrry first internet buddies! "If you join my Proboards I'll make you a supermod!" And you were at allllll the sites since! What part of Japan are you in? Was it an easy adjustment?

I know! Decades ago and a world apart, it's crazy how time flies. Is there anything remaining from UGF aside from the few threads that somehow made it onto the Internet Wayback Machine? I guess not, but still.

Basically, I planned a six-month stay in Tokyo about ten years ago and then just never left. Adjustment is an interesting thing because it still feels odd being able to walk about 60 minutes in any direction surrounded by buildings, houses, apartments, businesses, roads, parks, universities and so on the entire time and while there's lots of trees, grass and natural beauty none of it is uncultivated. But then, travel an hour by train away from central Tokyo and it's like nothing but mountainous raw nature as far as the eye can see.

I said I would be posting everyday, and I'm keeping up that behavior. I am working my way from the bottom up on any posts to which I feel like I can provide anything of substance.

First of all, it is so great to see many of you in a good place. Or, at the very least, not in abysmal situations. It genuinely warms my heart and I find myself lately staying up late and reading a lot of these posts, smiling ear to ear knowing you're doing well.

I feel pretty darn good. I am not going to lie, there are some ups and downs. I mentioned in my reintroduction thread that I lost a job at the end of January, but I picked up another pretty quickly. I went from working in management for Home Depot to working in banking. I decided to start as frontline service because it allows me to work remotely and I don't feel like driving my car anywhere. Biking and running is possible, but it is about to get hot and I wanted to avoid that.

I hear from a lot of people in our age group of late 30s and early 40s that their necks, backs, knees, etc. are aching and many of them have a steady diet of alternating acetaminophen and ibuprofen. I feel incredibly lucky that I don't have those troubles. I hike a couple times a week, I walk the dogs 2 to 3 mi a day, I participated in a couple of city rec leagues - volleyball and 3-on-3 basketball - and have coached my daughter and her age group in volleyball. If I am not active with the child or the pets, I am usually working in the yard, pulling weeds or digging out sprinkler lines or dealing with hornets. I most recently had to deal with a family of mice that nested in my dryer vent. All the activity keeps me in decent shape, without being underweight like I was in my teens and twenties.

I managed to buy a house back in 2015, before prices exploded along with interest rates. It's not much, three bedrooms, two bath, quarter acre lot. It has been 11 long years of fixing tiny things at every corner. I've had to fix every appliance, some electrical outlets, garage door opener, garage door, a few door frames that had shifted, just usual handyman/dad crap.

My daughter is also 11, poor kid looks exactly like me. Her mom's genes didn't even try. We do pretty much everything together, roller skating rinks, go-karting, amusement park, floating down river, camping, hiking, etc. Lagoon is a theme park about 30 months from where we live so we'll go a dozen times a year and ride everything age-appropriate several times. For hikes, she is determined to hike a 15 mi., 4000 ft. elevation change trail with me this summer. She completed her first peak last week, 5 mi. and 2,000 ft. I did have to carry her monkey butt down because her little legs were jelly and couldn't handle the descent. We plan to do it a lot more so she can build up the strength for the big one.

If any of you all have pictures from the old days of me, I would be surprised. I moved those around in Photobucket and then it went full monetization. Much of the wardrobe from those old pictures had to be thrown out, but they have been replaced because I still try to be a bit of a goofball. I still have a pair of purple leather pants, I still have an audacious orange Hawaiian style shirt, and I still wear them proudly. I will probably post a picture or two in the coming weeks, probably have my daughter in them because she's always with me.