Ben: Happy Birthday!

gorman: Yay! Happy birthddaaayy! How does it feel to be 42?

Chad: HA! Very funny!

Tess: Happy day of the birthings! 42 children is quite a feat!

monki: ahoy darling

Juliette: hi chad

RND: hiiii

crystalpegasus: heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! having site probs, can't add friends

Basjohn: I sent you like 10 messages on aim last time you told me to go on....but...but....THERE WASNT ANY REPLY *runs away sobbing into a hanky while his dress flutters in the wind*

Chad to Basjohn: I sawwy! I'd stepped away from the keyboard (*gasp* I know, that's unheard of)

maka: thanks for the welcome… :-)

Basjohn to Chad: INDEEDeth! So SHOK-K-K-K-Kiiiiing it almost reverted me to a basjish moment there! So uhh...like...don't do it again....and stuff.....(z0r)

gorman: Feeel betttarrr :)

GUESShimself: just set it and forget it chad.

Chad: indeed!

blu: hello matey

Chad to blu: HAI!

blu: arhar, at last my crappy african copper wired dialup has allowed me to click the mighty friend button and lo, we are friends

Basjohn: Wait wait waaaait....How can Chadz0r be in SF when Imthere is based in St Louis? You're not claiming there's some sort of....tube...net....inter...intertub...internets! Some sort of internets thing which people can use to do work from long distances?!?!

Basjohn: Such a thing is less likely than my Al-Gore nasal hair collection! .....which I'll admit is disturbingly a reality that has taken years...and I mean YEARS of attendance to all his mighty "slide show" presentations......oh the pain was barely worth it.