The Unintentional Absentee Landlord
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 10:13 pm
Uh. Hi.
It should be obvious to those who have been members for some time that I've been absent from MB for quite a while. Some of the rest of you will wonder who the hell I am. I'm the guy who's been neglecting this site when I was supposed to be running it.
SO. First, I should profusely thank and praise jrsjr for carrying far more than he volunteered for as Moderator Emeritus. And, of course, I thank the MB community for being, well, you, and carrying on in the way that I've always been proud of.
Though there are reasons, none are sufficient. I both feel that I owe the community some type of explanation and that any attempt at explanation would be essentially making excuses for failing to bear my responsibilities here. Additionally, I don't want to just pop in after an absence and unload a heap of stuff in some kind of bizarre emo confessional/journal/"too much information" dump.
I also feel a bit ashamed and am not trying to play for sympathy.
SO. Uh…
I had a lot going on. Some non-life-threatening medical issues. A lot of pressure and changes at work. Taking on too many things. And other… stuff. And I got overwhelmed. All my focus and energy was going to day-to-day tasks such as work and life, and I started neglecting things. It kind of snowballed, and continued doing so until I realized that I'd been burying a lot of my responsibilities and that something was probably wrong. So I went to my doctor and I'm working on it.
Does that sound like I became a drug addict or had a nervous breakdown? Honestly, nothing like that. I haven't had to deal with any more than most of you do. It just got very hard for me to do it and as a result I kind of checked out. Checking out is not a good way to deal with things.
ANYWAYS, thanks for reading through this overly long bit of navel-gazing which I realize doesn't sound as much like an apology as I'd like it to.
I am here, and hoping to again be worthy of MB.
It should be obvious to those who have been members for some time that I've been absent from MB for quite a while. Some of the rest of you will wonder who the hell I am. I'm the guy who's been neglecting this site when I was supposed to be running it.
SO. First, I should profusely thank and praise jrsjr for carrying far more than he volunteered for as Moderator Emeritus. And, of course, I thank the MB community for being, well, you, and carrying on in the way that I've always been proud of.
Though there are reasons, none are sufficient. I both feel that I owe the community some type of explanation and that any attempt at explanation would be essentially making excuses for failing to bear my responsibilities here. Additionally, I don't want to just pop in after an absence and unload a heap of stuff in some kind of bizarre emo confessional/journal/"too much information" dump.
I also feel a bit ashamed and am not trying to play for sympathy.
SO. Uh…
I had a lot going on. Some non-life-threatening medical issues. A lot of pressure and changes at work. Taking on too many things. And other… stuff. And I got overwhelmed. All my focus and energy was going to day-to-day tasks such as work and life, and I started neglecting things. It kind of snowballed, and continued doing so until I realized that I'd been burying a lot of my responsibilities and that something was probably wrong. So I went to my doctor and I'm working on it.
Does that sound like I became a drug addict or had a nervous breakdown? Honestly, nothing like that. I haven't had to deal with any more than most of you do. It just got very hard for me to do it and as a result I kind of checked out. Checking out is not a good way to deal with things.
ANYWAYS, thanks for reading through this overly long bit of navel-gazing which I realize doesn't sound as much like an apology as I'd like it to.
I am here, and hoping to again be worthy of MB.