OK, my turn. First, I am not thanking anyone or this will get way too sentimental. I say, you're welcome to both Vicki and Adam. That was an incredible post Adam. And, he isn't kidding when he says he is my only friend. For the most part.
I would like to make two observations or two statements or whatever. First, I have commented to a few people on here via PM that AC hasn't seen such a large, enthusiastic, motivated group of new users on the board, well since I can ever recall. As I posited, it is probably a combination of v5 (with more questions from new users and old that has revved up the 'economy'), the ACUC and all of the stimulus stuff. But, it has been great to the influx of new ideas and having new people to challenge the older user's hard held beliefs. But, then for me, that changed. It suddenly became this movement of how difficult AC v5 is, how everyone must do their part and help the new users, hell help the person even considering purchasing AC. Fill in where AC doesn't. This isn't to say that we have seen the board for years, and we don't want it to change. In reality it can't. But, for those of you have haven't seen the age of giving Al Bourgues EMR asylum during Christmas two or three Christmases ago, the EULA wars that lasted longer than the French and Indian War, the Paul blogs that were extremely well written, but took an hour to read (God bless you Paul), the double log-on, your post didn't take days where this became the number one issue ever on AC (I forget who found the fix for that, but I had a lot of fun stretching the solution over 24 hours. There was the next huge issue of finding a solution to the horrible medication databases (sorry to sound like I'm bragging here), but I made the pediatric one, and Brian Cotner made the FP one. But, this board continues to be the voice of AC users, and it probably always will be, and I don't think we can change a user board.
Finally, to comment on what Adam said, and I appreciate what he said about the thank yous, I do think I get thanks for everything I do. Frankly, what bothers me is not that (because it rarely happens), but when someone asks a question, and either I or another user either quickly or with a great deal of research puts for an answer and never hears back. This doesn't help anyone and, frankly, it does feel as though that person didn't care at all about the time you took. Personally, I just want to know did I make a difference. And, I want to learn.
