It pains me to say and do, but I will not be renewing my membership subscription when it comes up in a few days. I'm not even sure why my billing date is 23 November; I joined the site in June or July (of 2005!). I'd post a link to some earlier entries and pictures, but the site is so completely fucked up now that I can't do that. I was even going to make public all of my stuff on here so I could still see it, but that doesn't seem to be possible either. But by Balor's Eye! does this whole situation make me mad (and sad). I guess it was inevitable, though. We had a long run, you and I, my dear SG; but our relationship has been fading for years. The glory days were long gone even those years ago.
Still, there were plenty of good times. Although I've never had a particularly active online presence, nonetheless SG afforded me the opportunity to meet some wonderful people, people with whom I am friends still. I got to meet and hang out with Al; I'm still friends with her brother. I recently attended Flux's wedding. Schiavona & K_Rex invited me into their home eight Thanksgivings ago, and we've been dear friends ever since. Kriss was my first friend on SG, and she tutored me in the ways of SG while we flirted online; I still see her and not_tom regularly. And Sadista (formerly Cindred, if I remember correctly, pre-undeserved-zot) & Marksy are still much-loved points of contact farther afield in NC. And there have been many others who have faded from view but had some impact on me or about whom I still occasionally hear some bit of news.
And TheFox, of course, I still see my wonderful wife every day. ;-) Although we didn't meet through the site, we certainly bonded through it and the friends we made here.
...?...I don't know what else to say. I miss bitching on the Boards. I miss the hilarity in Member Since 2005. Holy fuck, I even got to be on The Council; how did that happen? And I miss the parties, those crazy fucking parties. I guess this is the price of growing older. Well, no... this is the price of Sean and Missy (or the IT crew, fuck if I know) totally borking the site all to hell. I mean, really, how the hell could they fuck this up like this?? SG predates Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, ...all of them I believe.
Well, at least I got to be in on it for a good while. Again, I'll miss it, but it's time to move on. Hell, I'm not active anywhere on the intertubez anymore. It's kinda strange when I think about it, all the scraps of my life scattered about the Web. But maybe it's only temporary. Maybe some months or years from now they'll get their shit together again and I'll be able to come back. We shall see...
In the meantime, I wish you all well. It's been good knowing you.
peace!
Lorcan
