Welcome! A jade dog sounds cute.

Jade reminds me of a fun literary myth about Goethe's Über allen Gipfeln

  
  Above all summits
  it is calm.
  In all the tree-tops
  you feel
  scarcely a breath;
  The birds in the forest are silent,
  just wait, soon
  you will rest as well.
  

Allegedly the poem was translated into Japanese, then French, then German again and had become something like this

  Silence reigns in the pavilion of jade
  Crows fly mutely
  to snow-dusted cherry trees in moonlight
  I sit
  and cry

For some reason I always have to think of that when I think about jade.

(also apologies to the german language for that butcher job)

If I start a thread on a topic that I'm interested in but no one else joins in, can I bump it?

That's not really how hubski works - stuff you post is either seen by people that follow you, or by people who follow your post's tags. Time isn't as much a factor as, say, reddit. So people who care will see it, no need to bump. People also do revive old discussions again when something interesting can be said.

I do hope that when you said you read some drama you were referring to galen's upcoming theatre performance ;P