Editors' Note: ejoanna has gone on an unauthorized (by IAN Headquarters) retreat. "Retreat": sure. Geez. We're thinking she just got overwhelmed at the annual conference of Seekrit Hideout Administrators she just attended (in seekrit, of courses.) And decided to take her own advice and get outta town.
Tuesday! A day to quietly retreat?
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It also allows us to find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a Kosmail and ask to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
We do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday:
BadKitties
Tuesday:
ejoanna
Wednesday:
Caedy
Thursday:
art ah zen
Friday:
FloridaSNMOM
Saturday:
Siris
Sunday:
loggersbrat
(Lat Year's Seekrit Hideout Locale. But they never meet in the same place twice. . .)
We are thinking that Gwennedd would be the logical Ian-ite to lead a search party for eJ. Except that when we've sent these so-called "search" parties out to look for errant Ian-ites, the searchers often go missing--only to return a week later in a happy daze. One of our search parties never came back--and was last spotted--we think; it's all so, you know, seekrit--here:
Maybe we should just relax. eJ will be back next week. Probably.
She did seem upset about the Okura Hotel's demolition. (See her Ian diary of June 16th for details.) So maybe she's temporarily transferred to our Tokyo branch.
Meanwhile, please sign in and share a tale of one of your own "retreats." We'll keep it a seekrit.