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Dada is back! (Sort of)

I’m back. August and September bit me in the back — my beard is greyer, my brain is leaking out both ears, and I feel about 10 years older. That’s what you get when you try to force 11 months of income into a 40 day period (plus 25 days of travel). Lots of great news, plus I get to start working on paying off the gargantuan debt from losing my stores last year (only about $15,000 at this point, down from $150,000 just 10 months ago). Good things all around.

The minuses:
* Spam in the forums is TERRIBLE.
* We lost Mike Bryson — his family, friends, a few customers, and most of his church found his posts and basically told him to get out. So he left me a voice mail and apologized (see below for good news)
* I missed a TON of movement in the gold market, I missed the popping of the property bubble, and I missed some other hilarities. Plus I missed a lot of Slashdot fun that is in the archives.

The pluses:
* Bryson returned my financial support, so there’s money to pay someone to take over. Real funny money (Paypal) instead of “fake” hard money (gold and silver as I paid it out).
* The market is crazy, but that means more posts.
* Someone released a great phpBB2 spam filter. I’m downloading it now!
* Tons of fun with the upcoming election.
* I’ll be in town, more or less, for the next 4 weeks, then out for 5 days each month, until next August when the bigger projects hit (for 2 months, again).
* The sites made more money when I was away than when I left. I guess that means that sites with fewer updates make more money. Ridiculous. Time to send out some real money to people — paypal now if you prefer. That’s for those who stuck around. Idiotic, yes, but the cash is there, and it surprised the heck out of me.

Sorry for being away. The only forum I actually hit was the HP forums, only because it connected with my work. I actually did not pop in ONCE because I knew if I did, I’d have no ability to work. It wasn’t fun, sort of like quitting crack (never did it), but I had to do it. Ever had to work, finish a thesis, or get married, and realize you can’t break free from the keyboard? That’s about how it was.

I’ve had a week now of rest, trimmed the long beard (forgot to take a picture, but think Theodore Kaczynski), got some new clothes, and am ready to catch up on e-mails, PMs, voice mails, text messages, snail mails, and whatever else is out there.

Expect new posts Monday, and in great quantity. Too much to talk about, I’m so excited!

Love you all, missed you all, thanks for sticking around and wondering.