I guess I had better

Hiya Anthony. Welcome and all that.

Here in Boston, I confess I hear or read the name Anthony, and I think of Prince Spaghetti Day.

Well, you're part of us now, like it or not.
Smiles.

are you a pastafarian?

Whatcha selling there, Tony?

He just left here, stopped by to try and sell me on a tacky laminate floor!

Hello Anthony, I'm Ceili from Canada.

Yo Antny, hayadoon?
Yo fum Philly

Yo, Anthony! I'm Russ, orig from Boston up to '99, now in Sarasota for almost 2 years. Sure enjoying warmth and sunshine.

Nice meeting 'ya!

Excellent. Most of those things are so slick you could fall and break your neck.

You should never walk on cooked pasta.

Hi, Antony I'm Izzy from Southampton UK.

I'm gonna go try that just to see if you're right.

Hi Anthony,

FS, from Aussie Land, so you can't sell me any lino, though I am looking for a pebble look one, darn, you are from the wrong side of the World:)

Don't do it, your socks will get all squishy and then they'll become hard and uncomfortable. Consider this a public service announcement. I'm here for ya!!

Is this national coming out day?

Of course they'll get hard and uncomfortable. Pasta is made out of STARCH! It's supposed to be uncomfortable.

Anthony, you know me already, but I'll add some things you might not have picked up -

I used to be a lab technologist (a word we used back then, it meant you had a degree and a state license) who ran (I do mean ran, I was the only one in the room and the one who moved the refrigerator, etc.) a rheumatology clinical lab, and was later head tech for an immunology research lab, and later yet, not quite a happy camper at a clinical lab that grew to be an international kind of resource.

I took a zillion nighttime art studio classes after work then.
So, when I was feeling trapped with no windows in the last lab room and repetitive tasks, I wanted to change.

Whereupon, I started in with landscape architecture courses at a university with an extension/night classes. That took four years. Worked all day most of that time in jobs in the new field. Eventually passed national boards and had a couple of dozen years of design fun and stress in the new field.

Married a guy I found interesting, and still is as a human a long time after our divorce. In the midst of all the above, I became a painter, had two galleries.

Politically, I'm quite left of most americans and scarily center to myself.

Pasta that's slippery is overcooked.

Hello Antony & welcome to A2K.
I think I've already welcomed you on another thread, but seeing as this is your official introduction thread, I'll do it again now.
I'm Olga, from Melbourne, Australia.