Sekiath

I remember when I first started browsing the ASMB forums, somewhere around 2004 or 2005, mostly I checked out the website because I wanted to watch FLCL, and I saw Wolf's Rain and loved both of them. The website went through several different designs within a year or two, and they kept updating the look every so often after that. The earliest I remember seeing was the links to different sections of the websites were drawn in clouds, and it looked like a chalk drawing on a blackboard. There was definitely something before that, but I don't remember what that design was. Also around the same time, they posted drawings of a giant owl everywhere. Maybe to celebrate the new rank title, Order Of The Owl. Also maybe the owl became the sort-of mascot for [adult swim], being a channel for people who stayed up late at night. Man, now I'm reminiscing of the late nights when I'd watch anime or reruns of ATHF. Ugh, nostalgia. ...And now I'm realizing that truly nothing of the internet in those days exists anymore. All of the websites and all of the people I knew from back then are long gone!

Eklipse! Hey, I remember you! And your happy purple-haired Misato icon!

I just had a salad and bread. Been working late on a friday; I'm exhausted.

I'm friends with some on FaceBook, I've spoken to a few over the phone but never met anyone in person so far as I remember.

He may have anal gland problems. Take him to a vet where they'll get his glands "expressed" if he is having problems. Otherwise it is quite painful for the cat.

I have found this board and have decided to rejoin my old ASMB pals. I've remade my old profile picture in case anybody could recognize me by it (so edgy! I remember hoping I would look "cool" like this when I grew up. Instead I have a beard and no hair). I would have loved to relive this experience with Saddy still around. ASMB just can't be the same without her. Strange feelings being here. I know many of you. I am friends on Facebook with many of you. But I have not spoken with any of you for years and years. I was only a teenager back then; I am in my thirties now. It feels like revisiting a place I grew up in, from a young child, and seeing so many names I had forgotten and so many memories I think I may have suppressed come flooding back. It feels like visiting *myself* again, a younger me that visited the ASMB out of such desperate loneliness and found an incredible community. It feels like I'm hugging my younger self, seeing how much I'd come to grow as a person. I think the ASMB and its members have helped me along the way more than I had thought. Yet so many of these people have passed away. But RyanfromtheShire and Saddy... I won't forget them.