Gold: Do I cry or celebrate?

blurrybill · Mar 25, 2002

As Bob T. once said, you'll reach posting levels before you realize it. Here I am, no tractor, yet reached Gold Member status. Is this a good thing? Rancar remarked how "busy" I was this weekend and I guess that's so.... There's no car to run around screaming (like when we were kids and yours turned over 100K) so guess I'll have to wait for the tractor.

Does this mean I get to keep learning from you guys? Will I ever actually compose a post that contributes to tractor experience/knowlege? Keep your fingers crossed; maybe my time will come. Thanks to the true Golds and Beyond (plus others) that continue to educate me!

Muhammed: Do I get a gold watch or something? Just wondering.....

Bill

Harv · Mar 25, 2002

no tractor, yet reached Gold Member status.

You're just following in my footsteps, Bill. I made Gold just by asking lots and lots of dumb questions, all of which got answered competently and politely by the TBN membership. When I finally bought my tractor, I kept right on asking dumb questions, and... well, here we are. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Will I ever actually compose a post that contributes to tractor experience/knowlege?

You've probably already contributed more than you think, but I'm living proof that you don't have to be a tractor expert to participate on this forum.

Oh, and if you do score a gold watch, please let me know.

Congrats!

blurrybill · Mar 25, 2002

Thanks, Harv. And, I KNOW you have contributed because I among others have benefitted from your experience. I'll keep plugging away. You all will definitely hear from me when the tractor deal is done and more when I start using it.

Bill

MarkV · Mar 25, 2002

Bill, lets see, Gold status in a Tractor forum and no tractor. I don’t want to worry you, but you may need to seek some professional help! Oh ya, your profile says you are the professional help. Good! That says the rest of us are OK and I can let the wife know she doesn’t have to worry anymore./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Seriously---or at least a little more so---I wish I had participated more before I bought my first tractor. I was one of the lurkers for well over a year and if I had jumped in with my questions, I would have been even better informed than I was when I did buy. Congratulations on the new level and I am with Harv, if you get a watch I want one./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

MarkV

Youare · Mar 25, 2002

It doesn't take long./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif I was showing my wife this sight a while back, she is not that impressed with it./w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif She happen to pay attention to the number of posts people made and then asked me how many have you made, oops. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

She thought over 200 was a lot, but then she dosen't know how quickly they add up. I keep telling her these guys have saved me a bunch of learning experiences and the associated repairs that go with them.

Just think when you do get your tractor you will be at the next level in no time. /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif

Randy

frank_f15 · Mar 25, 2002

BILL! YOU CELEBRATE!!! gold whether u have a tractor or not denotes a serious tractorphile, u will notice that as the weather gets nicer and more work needs to be done that the number of post will go down. the way the weather is up here right now i will be spending a lot of time on computer. temp 22 deg. 3 in. of fresh snow and ground muddier than heck.

rancar · Mar 25, 2002

Bill,

Here I am, no tractor, yet reached Gold Member status. Is this a good thing?

Congrats Bill. Here I am as well, no tractor (but one is in the pipeline) and I think I just hit Platinum Member. Sure, it's a good thing. We learn by asking questions. Get's me thinking, has there ever been a smart question asked? If it was a smart question, then the person asking it was kind of dumb to be asking it in the first place...as they say, we're never too old or smart to keep on learning and as we have both found out there's plenty to learn in buying a tractor. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

blurrybill · Mar 25, 2002

Thanks for the replies so far, guys. I guess I can contribute an angle here after all: Seems like the key is to keep asking questions about central vacs, digital cameras and the like (all of which my wife is interested in) and the number of posts doesn't seem as significant. She did remark on 150 as being pretty excessive tonight, then self-corrected with how much I(we) have learned about house-related items.

Better yet, she asked again "What attachments do you need to go with the new tractor?" Not, "Can't you get by without that?" Now, to get to this point with continued support is quite an accomplishment, even if I don't have the tractor yet!
Wish me luck; we're getting closer to purchase time.

Bill

blurrybill · Mar 25, 2002

MarkV,

I don't want to worry you, but psychotherapy is inherently impossible on oneself. Sadly, this means your initial assessment is probably right: I do need help! And so do you! That said, abnormal behavior is exactly what it implies -- outside the norm of behavior. So, rationalizing as we go, people who post on this forum are behaving "normally" (for the forum). Anyway, I prefer for this argument the "Young Frankenstein" film definition - remember Igor (Marty Feldman) picked out the brain he thought came from "Abby Normal" - the rest is history. All psychobabble aside, we're all just plain nuts. But, let's keep it in the group!! Besides people who want to sell me tractor and implements are counting on it!

Bill

crown · Mar 26, 2002

Just went Gold myself, hard to believe that less than a year ago I was looking at tractors and didn't have a clue, thanks to TBN I now am at least a novice who knows where to go to figure thinks out and of course have lots of fun/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif