Ugh, I'm back after a decade away.
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Deleted bookface having found the conversation untenable.
What's new with DU? I see a few pre-2002 users still active. The "Shock-and-Awe" years.
Prost!
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Quite a few have passed on. Many new DU'ers have joined. Welcome back to the fold. 
We have an In Memoriam page now, for DU'ers who have died. The link is at the bottom of every page.
You might check out the Forums & Groups tab at the top. There are a lot of Groups, probably one for every interest.
I remember you, too! Gosh, that was back when I was a misanthropic grad student. I regret every post I made back then.
Two Ph.D.s later and I still kinda think fondly about a few of the originals like Underpants and Kat.
So we're onto DU3 or 4 now?
And we're onto DU 3 now. It works well.
Underpants is here and still posts now and then. I'm not sure I remember Kat. 
To some degree we all share a similar White House lament lately.
WELCOME BACK
Sumbitch! Talk about a fellow old-timer. 
Glad to see you!
Member since 2001!
Glad you decided to come back...
It only took me 8 years to remember my log-in.
On edit: I see your 20 in your profile. I retired from teaching college in Oly about 5 years ago and am currently vacationing in Wenatchee right now. We have snow, but you just endured a pretty stiff breeze last week. You survived satisfactorily?
Muster.
But I kept looking for the "like" button here whenever I read something good. Had to log back in.
I was hermiting the Arizona desert during the election charlie foxtrot. I cast my votes then went and communed with the saguaro. A necessary catharsis.
The Monkeywrench Gang analogy, but you get points for the shout-out. Between Thoreau, Abbey, Leopold and Kerouak I seem to have a little bit in common with almost everyone here.
On edit: Adventures? PM me for adventure stories.
Me navigate candidacy and my first doctoral defense, a lamentable war, a lopsided relationship and countless sleepless nights suffering either creative alcoholism or destructive writer's block.
So, yeah, it is a little slice of home.
still live 
. I love Edward Abbey.
And welcome back.
Good to see you.
I like the screen name.
My mother's maiden name was Baumgardt.
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I know the spelling of my mother's name to be distinctly German, however I admit my etymological expertise to be waning.
Edit to correct spelling. Tapping letters one finger at a time, fat ones at that.
And, yes, the Germans and the Dutch at some point were likely the same, depending on how far back you look. The thing I love about DU is that there is always an expert in just about everything you question and there is always an answer.
Let them come forth and educate us.
to always have been firm yet well measured.
And it has been a long time! What color tennis balls are on the feet of your walker? Mine are standard chartreuse.
I tried making a new username assuming the same thing; that my account was so derelect it must have been sent to the great internet moniker disposal in the sky. Then I simply clicked the "lost username" and then "lost password" links and voila!
I wouldn't instantly assume your account was sent to the great digital guillotine betwixt optical fibers deep under the Pacific somewhere. I used to flame and troll and generally be an emotionally undisciplined jerk here. I had some stuff to address outside of DU. If anyone was going to be deleted, it was probably me.
I'm sure your old handle is likely in some liberal limbo somewhere just waiting for you like an unrequited love.
there are so many of us still around. We need to bring our history, experience and wisdom into the next iteration of swinging pendula.
Let's rally!
"Hayduke Lives".
A much better set of epistles.
(No offense)
I went by "rezmutt" back when. Good to see you again! 
We didn't have a lot of interaction back then, let's make that change now.
We ain't getting any younger!
So many old friends!
Ten years is a long, long time!