August 24th, 2016, is when we lost Admin Girl after a years long battle with complications due to scleroderma.
I had something planned for the 24th this year, but I’m going to post now.
Many readers are aware that we had some pretty bad site issues today that took us down for nearly an hour. This is something that Admin Girl would normally be taking care of.
The other day I was moving a small antique chalkboard and set it down. Written on it was the phone number of our old server and the password: Rosie.
Rosie was Admin Girl’s cat.
The day she gave me the password was the day I knew she was very, very sick.
Yes, believe it or not the password for the server was kept from everyone but Admin Girl. That’s one of the things that drove me crazy about her. It was very risky, that system, but she always managed to get the job done.
Her iconic eye avatar was ever present, and she was always there.
Now, for the first time we’ll reveal where that avatar came from. And Kerre (Admin Girl) will provide the soundtrack.
(The audio will not publish properly. It’s almost as if Kerre is saying “don’t you dare!!!!” So here is a snippet. Maybe one day we’ll put up a good copy.)
So no matter what, now we will always know she is here on the site.
Absolute beautiful tribute, thanks.
*Somebody’s* gotta keep an eye on you, Fur!
What a woman!
(Sigh) I miss that beautiful avatar.
Speaking for my own selfish self, I would like to see her avatar back up.
Time to clean the house, there’s a lot of dust kicking up over here and it’s affecting my eyes.
Lovely post. Bitter sweet.
*Bows head*
God Bless and God speed.
My thoughts and best wishes are for all here at iotw.
Absolutely beautiful!!
^^ Actually would appreciate seeing it pinned somewhere permanently.
She was a gem.
Rock on, babe. Wow-It’s been a year. I miss our emails-talking about about things we should/would/could-or not. BFH has heard some-probably TMI.
😊❤️
Friends all.
Good 80s Singing, I Love it and Miss Her !
I miss Admin Girl and, I too would like to see her lovely watchful eye somewhere on the site. I miss seeing that.
I miss Admin Girl and, I too would like to see her lovely watchful eye somewhere on the site. I miss seeing that. I also wonder how her daughter is doing…
Sorry for the double anonymous comment! Duh.
I will raise a fine glass to Admin Girl tonight. 🙂
I can understand her password.
Roxy has been mine on many things before they started making you use 357 different characters. Idiots gotta screw up everything they touch.
Thanks BFH. Good to know.
I must have missed all the fun, dang Russians.
Admin Girl was a very rare jewel. God bless, dear lady, wherever you are.
Hard to believe its been almost a year. Miss her.
She’s back, her avatar is still looks great there!
As joe6pack stated above she has not left.
The watchful eye has been on the upper left side of iOTW since she left the world as we know it, right above the comments, and there is shall stay until Fur takes it down, like never.
Lovely tribute BFH to a fine woman. She is missed.
I didn’t know Admin Girl as I’m a fairly recent arrival.
But man. What a knockout beauty.
Cannot believe it has been a year. She was the woman who looked at all the too-rough-around-the-edges founders of iOTW and said, “Yeah, I can do something with this.”
God bless her.
Anne and The Honeycutters …. how apropos
It’s good to know that there remain some extraordinary individuals in the IOTW family!
Good historical snapshot Fur
Thanks
Humbled.
God bless!
Gosh, I’ve been here over a year now, wow.
Her avatar looks even better now that I know the origin. It’s one of the best!
Miss her very much. She never complained, ever, to the very last day.
Conservative’s dominate when it come’s to beautiful women. There couldn’t be a better example than her.
Thanks for the memorial. A year!
Pleas redo in 18
All I can manage is WOW!!!
Some of the most valuable conservatives are people who are immersed in a liberal environment and should be liberals. You can hardly get more liberal than writing for the LA music scene. But they retain a conservative outlook due to the fact that something about liberalism absolutely revolts them
You’re a case in point, BFH. Bookworm is another — she went to Berkeley for seven years and graduated cum laude from Berkeley Law School, but was disgusted by the Left’s rantings about the immorality of Hiroshima — because her mother had been an internee in a Japanese camp and had almost died from starvation
What I’m getting at — is there something in AG’s ethnic background that would cause her to be hostile to the Left.
She’s looks Far Eastern — Vietnamese maybe? Actually she looks about half Far Eastern; was she the child of a American serviceman and a Vietnamese mother? Both of those backgrounds would inure some one to the siren call of the Left
You dont have to answer that if you dont want, BFH. I’m just trying to account for her conservative outlook
I miss her too. That iconic eye! We traded a few emails long ago. Such a pretty lady.
Hey Fur, do you have any old threads she was a part of that you can re-post?
I think I remember her giving me grief for a discussion on iowntheworld.
I don’t remember her stepping in too often, but this thread was heated.
Beautiful!
Miss her. Miss talking about art, cats, etc.