Oh, really? Hello, Blurtit folk. It's not as fast-paced here, but I hope you'll like it. It's less foolish, so that's good.................or, could be a bad thing. Depends on you! Howdy.
I'm one of the new peeps from blurtit :p thanks for the welcome:) ... This is my first answer here ... So this is a test ... It's only a test ... If it was a real answer ... I forget the rest of that warning :/
It takes a while, I found when I first came, to get to know the different characters here. I do it by watching the kinds of questions and answers they post. It gives me only the vaguest sense but after a while, I recognise the ones with which I feel most affinity. Very few people are fully open about themselves here so one has to discover who they are via friending and messaging. A few are not the same behind the scenes as what they seem up front.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at December 2, 2016 2:06 AM MST
any one who knows me from previous site knows I'm an open book :p I come on sites like this to have fun and sometimes vent in ways I can't in my offline life :) ..... Sometimes late at night I have meltdowns but " we" just pretend that never happened the next day :) on the last site I was on anyway :) thanks for the info hart fire ... I'll pay mind to that :)
Welcome, and we look forward to getting to know you through your questions and answers. I hope you enjoy it and find it as addictive as I do. If the questions sometimes don't appeal to you, consider asking the ones you might like to answer.
What happened on Blurtit? Why the refugees? Would some ex-Blurtits share what is was like?
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at December 2, 2016 9:03 AM MST
Hi Hartfire. Great name and love the hat. Blurtit has been (and temporarily remains) a very happy, Q&A site. Lots of nice people, lots of good discussions, but a new administration is making changes that make most of us uncomfortable. One man has held it all together for the past couple of years but even he had enough and pulled out. He's one of the Blurtugees and signed up here today. I hope we all manage to fit in without ruffling too many feathers. :)
I'm an Aussie with much too pale skin so I'm almost always in some kind of hat if I'm outdoors. The moniker "hartfire" comes from the term "heartfire" in Orson Scott Card's book, "The Seventh Son." It's a bit of fantasy fiction (not my current interest) which explores the possibilities of how lives might have been lived in the C17th Appellation Mountains if the superstitions of the Dutch immigrants had been real. One character, a "torch," is able to see into the "heartfires" of others: see their life force, emotions, fears, loves and intentions. He uses the various superstitions to examine the tensions, struggles and ethical issues in small settler communities. Card was brought up as Mormon, so I guess he draws on personal experiences in depiciting his characters and the rather gossipy and very realistic ways they speak and act. I think "heartfire" refers in a neutral way to anyone - almost like saying soul or spirit but without a sense of anything immortal, no religious connotation.
What does "Didge" mean? Any chance it might be short for didgeridoo? Is that your face in your avatar? one side with a halo?
I read the Alvin the Maker series back in the early 90s. Wouldn't mind reading them again. Good stuff. And, yeah, that's my face. I have a schizophrenic avatar and I'm never sure which side is going to come to the fore.
I wrote a novel a couple of years ago in which some of the Norse gods migrated to Australia and tried to muscle their way in. Of course they ran into some opposition and one of their opponents was a Koori named Johnno who had a magic didgeridoo. That's where the name came from.
I'm on the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Where are you?
You're welcome. Aw, thanks. 'Tis a mouthful, though. 
Benedict Arnold 