i'm like jon....
i'm a scanner. many threads are very long. i work. i have a busy demanding family. i have a few animals to look after. and a few instruments to play. (i know, i know, who doesn't?!)
but i enjoy mudcatting. i learn a lot here. i sometimes have something to say here. i wish there was a limit to the number of entries per thread....maybe 50 or so. i wish that they were numbered so that you could pick up where you had to stop reading without having to reread it all.
sometimes i'll see a topic start in the morning that i'm interested in, and think about responding when i get time later in the day, only to find the thread has grown to 5, 973, 172 postings which i then have to read all thoroughly (and heavens, with all those in jokes and cross references and hidden knowledge i don't even understand it all) before i say anything to what the first person who started the thread was asking in the first place.
and oh how i wish that people wouldn't add anything to a thread while i'm trying to add something to it, which is probably happening RIGHT NOW!

night owl..... that's EXACTLY everything i was just going to say!

~black walnut