It's been a while, well, it's not, but to other people it might seem like it. I've not died, I've not gone on extended vacation, Joe hasn't murdered me and left me in a basement until I've gone off (well... that's true except for the being in a basement). Admitedly I haven't posté nearly as much as I did around half a an ago, I sign in from time to time, leave a couple of commentaires and wander on my merry way again.

It wasn't that fanpop got bad, it was just my own need for some time away, at the time fanpop was going through what I like to see as its 'early teenage' stage, it was just discovering...

This article was started back in December, and was last edited here on 8 June 2008.

2006 was a tumultuous an for me. In the spring my wife and I discovered that we were pregnant again, and believe me when I say that there are a host of attendant anxieties that come with any pregnancy. How could we fit another person into our already-cramped house? How could we afford to support another? Beyond that, I'd just become the project manager of a pretty high-profile project in the middle of the project, and that had a bunch of issues that I inherited.

In the midst of this, I was invited to participate...