Sabatticals

Blogging on a Sunday morning. Mike Tyson just fell to Lennox Lewis in 8 rounds to end what a lot of people think will be his last chance at the heavyweight title. I personally doubt it will be his last chance, but then again, I just don't care. Tyson is always going to get someone to pay $54.95 for a fight ... even if he didn't show up to box (like tonight), someone will pay it.

I don't have much to say tonight really. It's been a stressful couple of weeks and I've decided that I'm taking a long sabattical from reading Leoville. I know blogs are filled with this sort of stuff and then the person comes back the next day. In my case though, I won't say it unless I'm actually doing it. I was down to reading Laura Burstein's thread anyway and I just can't do it any more. It's pretty much mindless right now. Every day is the same. When it's not the same six posts over and over it's the same people photoshopping themselves into pictues of her and making the thread get even worse and worse. I just have so much going on with work and with other things that frankly, I have better things to do than go through blather.

That's coming from the guy who used to post a lot on Leoville, especially in that thread. Laura is also one of my best friends in the world. We're going to Canada on vacation together next month. I'm driving her to Montreal, and while there's nothing going on between us, she's one of my closest friends and I'm thankful that she's in my life. However, the thread is killing my interest in Leoville. The thread was the ONLY thing interesting left at that site and I guess, for now anyway, I'm joining the legions who have left Leoville in the past couple of months. I'll be back if things pick up, but god, it's just not a good place to be right now.

Am I making a big scene and saying I'm leaving TechTV fandom only to return a day or two later? Nope. Am I saying that I'm leaving forever or even thinking of shutting this site down? Nope. Do I hate anyone or am I going to spend all this time dissing anyone? Nope. I just want to make that clear. I'm leaving Leoville on my own accord because I find it pointless right now. It's just boring the heck out of me and there's nothing to save it right now. I *will* be back and I don't want this to be construed as an attack on Leo, Leoville, Laura or *anyone*. Got it? Good.

As far as this site goes, I have a lot planned. We're not changing our focus and we'll have a new bunch of strips up as soon as I can get to it. I've been very very busy for the past couple of weeks and life is going to calm down sooner or later. I'll probably shut down some of the lesser used areas to focus just on strips again (bye bye favorites, though the links will stay), and I'll probably shut down the guestbook since no one is using it anyway (you know things are bad when not even Moopie's signing it!). This season's seven strips have been the most fun I've had in quite a long time and I hope I can carry that fun over to the remaining nine and well into next season. As my friend Mandy put it "this must be a geek's dream site" and I hope it is. I really do.

On that note, I'm out of here. Hope to get time to blog again soon.

k9

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