Wow, appreciate the welcoming welcome. I went ahead and followed your recommendations, and pondered your "preachy answer" for the better part of an hour. Swap "Hubski" with "life" and you get what looks like solid advice for existing.

With sincerity, thank you for taking the time.

The community encouragement in your EDIT has sold me on exploring this week, and certainly on sticking around long-term. I'm not sure what I'm looking for, but you've given me reason to sit down and think about it for once. Here's to a good chat in the near future, thanks again.

Thank you, I'll try to strike up a conversation here and there -- as opposed to lurking. What would you say this place needs more of? As I'm at a loss as to what's worth contributing.

Should I ever visit (not likely), I'd want to walk the entire length of the sidewalk at night. +1 for the unexpectedly peaceful piano and scenery.

Depressive, and long-time net lurker. This looked like a good place to try opening up, being social again, and what have you. I'm not seeing the screaming matches and popularity contests that are so prevalent elsewhere. In short, hello Hubski.