Not that I've been lying or anything but as we often do I think I've been holding back a lot about my personal life. For reasons that are either good or bad I have chosen to use this blog page more to vent my personal feelings about issues that I care about. So far the response has been incredibly positive and I thank you all for that. However, I need to give you a head's up about myself and what's going on in my life so you can understand my sudden departure at the end of this month.
This was not an easy decision to make, first off. Were money not an issue doubtless I would still be here, bitching about #gamergate, venting emotions held in for the last ten years or trying to get you to give me all your money. But I gotta face facts, when money gets as tight as it has gotten for us since the holidays you sometimes have to make difficult choices. I've lost a lot of work and the pay that goes along with it. I worked it out with my wife early last week and the amount is in the hundreds of dollars. She is no longer working because the regional manager at her old job is a stark raving douchebag and doesn't give a shit about his employees. So because she is between jobs and I'm loosing pay when I found out my SG membership was up I made the hard decision to renew for one last month and then call it.
Not being able to afford the membership has also given me time to sit back and think about what I'm doing here and why. I've left before and come back later but after ten years it may be time for me to move on for good. Almost everyone I've met over the first few years has left as well as nearly every SG I used to to follow. That's not to say there aren't still thousands of awesome people on this website but we come and go for a reason. I'm finding my voice, I'm evolving and while I treasure each and every single experience I've had since being here, as Crocodile Dundee once said: "It's time to go walk about."
There are other websites that I'll end up on for certain and maybe I'll even run into some of you wonderful people there, who knows but my work here is done. It's time to play my swan song and bid this wonderful community the best as I reach out for new life, new civilizations and boldly go where I've never gone before.