Well, for post # 1000, let me tell you how I came to know Achewood.
My SO and I, in the time just before we began dating, but just after the more obvious flirting began, were working in a giant call centre about the size of four football fields. At this call centre,
Convergys, for those who want to know, we both worked for the "Save Team." When American AT & T WorldNet (a dial up internet provider) customers called in to the automated system, if they either: a) got tired of the impossible and annoying automated system and started mashing random keys on their phone, or b) pushed the button that offered them the option to cancel their account, they would then be put through to us way up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Fun Fact: If a customer asked where we were located, we were trained to say: "North of Minneapolis," and then be vague if further questions were asked. Anyway it was our job to convince anyone transferred to us to not cancel their account, and we had to try at least twice within the call to convince them, with offers of technical support, three free months of service, etc. So my SO, myself and a couple dozen other people did this, and working for an ISP, and sitting infront of a computer for hours on end, each of us basically surfed the net for 8 hrs a day five days a week. As we got more and more bored of our jobs, and more an more board of playing Bejeweled and IM'ing friends a hundred desks away, we started to look for more useful entertainments. Somehow I stumbled across
http://www.fadetoblack.com, which was a fun site back in the day, but is now not updated very often at all. The Celebrity Death Pool was always fun, and so was it's Cartoon of the Day, linked to the now defunct
http://plif.andkon.com/. My not-yet-SO discovered me giggling inbetween calls one day at the totally not-appropriate-for-work PLIF Oct 22/99 Cabage Patch Kid Holocaust strip, from their archive and he realized exactly where I was coming from, and that he had to find something equally good to impress me. He was searching out web comics over the next few days, and that's when he showed me the link to Achewood and the Dumbrella board. I started with the very first strip, and started posting on the board at the same time.
We got transferred together at the end of Novemeber to a different department - AT & T Broadband, which had gone bankrupt and disconnected service to around a hundred thousand custmers, and we had to take constant angry calls all day from customers who had been disconnected, without a break for days on end. We went on our official first date in the first week of Decemember 2001, and it was good as gold from then on.
We're both perminantly out of call centre hell now, but both call centres and Achewood were at the centre of our relationship at one point. I have fond memories of he and I skanking down the winter streets on our first date, dancing around about "these knifes" in the slushy snow. It's an easy way to remember the anniversary of our first date. The coffee shop we went to on that date is closed down now, I moved out of the apartment we walked to that day a year later to live with him, we moved out of the neighbourhood of the restaurant we ate that night this year to our new house... basically the only three things still in my life from four years ago are him, my cat, and Achewood. Huh.
Four years of Achewood, and 1000 posts.
I'm getting way to mushy here.
Fuck you all, motherfuckers.
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