Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow; How to Stay on Kiva Website Without Ever Leaving

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[Jill]

     It's Fantastic How Inventive Kiva Addicts Can Be

    in coming up with ways to stay camped out at the Kiva website, even when there's a lull in new Entrepreneur postings.

    I seem able to come up with new ones every day.

     A few suggestions:

1-Upon seeing the discussion currently going on in the Celebrating Diversity thread on
    Pros and Cons for posting Realistic/Honest or Bloody/Repulsive pictures of a Butcher at Work,
    it occurred to  me it might be interesting to
     go to the main Kiva Lend page,
    change "status" from "In Need" to "All" and type in "butcher"in the Search space
     to see what kind of other pictures had been posted, before, by those in the Butcher trade.

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&queryString=butcher&status=All&gender=All&sectors%5B%5D=All&regions%5B%5D=All&sortBy=Popularity

2-Then, when it got a little quiet at the site and at the Forum,
    early this morning (it's still just 7:18 a.m. where I am),
    since I'm trying to learn Spanish... and am loving it, by the way...
    I started reading some of my Entrepreneurs' descriptions in Spanish to see if I could pick up some extra Vocabulary

3-Then, still thinking about that same discussion, because someone, here, once showed me
how to look up just about anything about Lenders, for instance, here at Kiva,
I decided to search for FARMERS, thinking that Kiva Lenders who were farmers or ranchers or meat packers or butchers (!)
would probably have much stronger stomachs for pictures with bloody carcasses.


 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Akiva.org%2Flender%2F+%2Bfarmer&btnG=Search

(I'd put in:    site:kiva.org/lender/ +farmer

in the Google search space to get to the address, above)

4- Then, of course, there always the "Old Faithful" of Starting a New Thread
   even if hardly anybody else is going to think that your New Topic is nearly
   as interesting as you think it could be....
   and even if hardly anybody else is going to have either the time or the inclination
  to try to wade through your turgid sea of words
   besides yourself.......
   
    (And yes, I had to look up "turgid" just now to make sure I was using the right word). 

5- But think of it, looking up obscure  words (she says kindly and euphemistically)
   that Kiva Friend Jill uses in her neverending posts is still another way to remain hooked
   up at Kiva if you don't want to leave and maybe miss something!.
 

[Henry]

Jill....completely different topic!  I wish you would show a picture of yourself (or your pet) your a very interesting person, not to mention very smart.  I enjoy your books!

Henry, someone who likes to have an idea of what someone looks like.  What does that say about me?

[Wood Fairy Glenda]

It says  a lot about you, Henry, but I'm not quite sure what.  And, Jill, I, for one, agree with Henry on this one.

[AccountAbility]

Whoa! I'm agreeing with Henry twice?! 

[Henry]

There is hope for you yet AccountAbility!!

Did you happen to open my software? 

[Jill]

              Another diversion (or, maneuver for hanging around Kiva)
     is to press the "More" button for a number of Entrepreneurs,
     and even if you don't have any money left, or
     just don't find yourself being tempted either by a particular Entrepreneur's picture or story,



      You can still
6- Check out the pictures and "autobiographical info" of some
      of the Lenders on the Entrepreneur's Profile Page
      who did lend



       That's how I just now came across Brian and his mysterious monster pal.

http://www.kiva.org/lender/brianegge

     Can anyone enlighten me as to what manner of beast that is
that this young Welshman (?) is holding?


     

             By the way, you guys, it's not that I'm ignoring you about the photo;
     It's just that I'm ignoring you about the photo.
     Anyway, Splashdown Quacker Jack (AKA, simply Jack)
     is much prettier than I am.
     Really, it's just a matter of vanity-- I haven't seen any pictures of myself
     that I've  liked since I was a "cute young-er thing"
     cradling a couple of baby wood ducks in my hands, fifteen years ago.
   
     And, anyway, except for my Lender photo of Jack, I haven't figured out
    yet how to get pictures off my computer onto these Forum posts.
    (And that is, even if I had one -- and...
     I just got my very first digital camera, being quite slow to catch up with you young-'uns on such things,
    so I wouldn't be able to take one right now, anyway
     (well, yes, on that very last part,
      my nose is growing a little.....
      more).

   
   OK, now, how about quitting screwing around with this silly photo stuff
    and concentrate on giving our friends some additional ideas for
    lollygagging
    around on Kiva.

    (I just had to look up "lollygagging" to make sure I was using it right.
     My little dictionary, close by, didn't have it, but I found it, using Google,
     right away. 
     God, I love the Internet!).

     

[Diane R]

I'm pretty sure that beast is a wombat.  (Which would make sense, since they're found in Australia, and New South Wales is a territory in Australia so Brian must live nearby wombats.)




Anyone concur?

--Diane.

[QueenOfHearts]

Jill....completely different topic!  I wish you would show a picture of yourself (or your pet) your a very interesting person, not to mention very smart.  I enjoy your books!

Henry, someone who likes to have an idea of what someone looks like.  What does that say about me?

That you are either insecure, crazy or how do they say it nicely.....eccentric?
Q

[Henry]

Diane, I think your right.....however my post was going to be:

Welsh rarebit !   HAHAHAAHHAAHA

that's rarebit gone bad!   
he's holding it like....  'OH S##T, who put this monster here'
I love that photo, thanks Jill ( oh lord, now she's got pages of text and pictures )


and Queen!  , most likely, i'm all the above or is that below, depends on how you have your message reading set up now doesn't it!?   

[RichardF]

Jill, obviously, you also need a steady diet to feed your co-dependent words addiction!   So...nothing like a handy enabler to keep the ball, sphere, globe, orb rolling! 

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