Office, straight to the forums and hitting New posts unless I have PM which I open on a separate window... don't have a need for the main portal (I never did in MR either) not to geeky, savvy or interested on it I guess.
Home, main portal screen (I have been to lazy to link directly to the forum), new posts first. I was in the habit (since MR) to look on every forum out there but someone at the shin-dig mentioned the fact that I should just hit new posts and I started doing that ever since... we're not going to mention any names here but they both rhyme with WIM and XX

([size=1]No one, and I mean no one will be able to suspect who those 2 are!!!

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As far as skins go, well, at 43, my sight is constantly failling me so I like whatever skin I can get as long as it doesn't hurt my eyes and has big letters

, hate red so I wouldn't care for that one but I did like the one you posted on thread #18 (243 I think it was), hate #19 (247) because of the contrast with the white background (again, to heavy on me eyes).
Midwest, that was NOT the demise of MR but if Kevin starts to work for Microsoft... erm, we will need to look for yet another guy for a new community