It's amazing how quickly time passes. The older you get, the faster it zips by.

Well, it does for me.

Since 2001 I've been a member of the techwr-l list but I didn't notice when the mailings stopped coming in March this year. Too busy with a contract that demanded 100% concentration 100% of the time (talk about brain strain). Patents will do that to you.

So when the contract ended and I had time to sit and think and review my Inbox (12,000+ emails to sort through and file) I suddenly thought: Hey. Where are my techwr-l emails?

Came to the site, tried to log in. Couldn't. Tried to ask for a password reset. Couldn't. Persona non grata.

Thought maybe I'd been imagining the emails that have been coming daily since 2001 - but no, I'm a hoarder and I hang onto stuff, especially email (unless Microsoft's OS decrees otherwise :)).

So, rather than trade umpteen emails asking where I'd gone to, I figured I'd just re-register. Simpler and quicker.

Call this my second childhood...