Pardon me for getting all philosophical about this, but I use the people here for for my own selfish purposes.
I learned long ago that a life of fun is pretty trivial and frivolous. What makes life really enjoyable is accomplishing something, even if the accomplishments are trivial and frivolous. In years past I got my jollies building things -- concrete, wood, steel, I could do 'em all. But now that I'm getting old a creaky-jointed I've turned to a new pastime, writing code. If members of my forum or people here at vB.org get some good out of my projects I can convince myself I've accomplished something, and fortunately I'm pretty gullible on that matter.
So I always get some ingrates but as long as some people like my stuff I'm happy. You get something for free and I get to think I've done something. Win/win.
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