Dang! Reading over your post I find myself recalling the myriad of ways Mudcat has found it's way into my life..... Mad, sad, and just plain laugh out loud amazing.
There are websites that "network" people and then there is the 'cat. Seems to me to be more of an amazing web of complexity and color and harmony ( even the discord echos in a rhythm of sorts)
Thanks for a moment to remember.