JohnDillworth
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ORIGINAL: John 3rd Hello My Readers. The events over the last week have led me to temporarily suspend Dan and I's game. Reasons are: 1. It appears I need to either upgrade or buy a new computer. Michael and I had a good chat this morning and he thinks the game is crashing due to RAM Issues or too full of a Hard Drive. IT makes a lot of sense to me since this computer is nearly 5 years old. I followed Bill's recommendations and hope to see an improvement. Will try to run the turn tonight and see. If I had ANY technological ability this would be far easier! 2. The toll taken on me by playing three games simultaneously has led to a strong feeling of burnout. For months I was doing turns during the morning, afternoon, evening, and middle-of-the-night. I had hoped that handing Herbie's game over to a new player and putting on hold Michael's game would help. Relieved of those commitments, I looked forward to each turn from Dan to see what craziness he had in store for the Empire! It felt like I was feeling better until the computer crapped out on me. What really told me there was burnout issues was that I really didn't feel an urge to fix things quickly and borderline didn't really care. I realized this on Sunday morning and that really freaked me out. Have been playing UV, WitP, and AE constantly for 13+ years. Guess burnout is only natural. Dan took over a year away from the Forum and two years away from our match when he experienced the same thing. It greatly helped him. Once I had the epiphany Sunday I tried to call Michael ASAP but didn't catch him until this morning. We talked it through and then I called Dan we had a great 30+ minute talk on the phone. As always, he was empathetic, understanding, and totally understood where I was coming from. Lord knows he did it earlier. Love the man to death. We can be at each other's throats yelling BANZAI or issuing the REBEL YELL and then totally separate from the game and talk as friends. 3. I have received three NASTY PMs by AFBs/Fans of his AAR that were completely rude, offensive, and WAY out of line. I was accused of cheating, not being 'man enough' to handle a late-war game, etc... Really served to push me right over the edge. Taking the moral high ground, I have not responded to these messages and will not name names here. I may send them to our moderator so he can see. It vividly reminded me of why Dan left the game when he did for very similar reasons years ago. 4. Life is CRAZY presently. I've mentioned this over and over since school got out. Family time MUST take priority and I am following the right path here until school re-starts. Someone commented about thinking I owned my Subway Franchise a while back. Paula and I are now officially entering negotiations to buy our LaSalle store as well as the store 12 miles south of here in Platteville. Ownership will be a HUGE step and we greatly look forward to it. Once past the family and work, our commitment to the LaSalle Area Historical Society has grown. In serving as the current President, we are aggressively working to buy a building (or takeover an old school house) to create a local community museum. This is another big commitment that has a marvelous up-side if we can gain the building. Just thought the readers should understand that many elements and events have gone into making this very difficult decision. Dan and I are looking at taking a month-long siesta and then picking it up again in mid-August. This is our agreed upon plan. In doing this it is my FERVENT hope to re-charge my batteries! I've decided that there will be some updates here as well as some serious time spent working on a new Mod. Mod work always serves to fire me up and clear my mind. Love the thinking and work that goes into creating a new variant/whole new Mod. This is where we are at. Am sorry to put things on hold and I hope you understand. We're not done---just taking a break. Apologies are in order so here they are. Warmly, John quote:
3. I have received three NASTY PMs by AFBs/Fans of his AAR that were completely rude, offensive, and WAY out of line. Send em along to the moderator. One of the many, many nice thing about this forum is that political talk of any kind is not tolerated. It leads to uncivil discourse. There is more than enough of that in the world these days, you should not have to tolerate it here. Sorry to paraphrase but those 3 certainly do not represent most AFB's. Tend to whats important and we look forward to your return. Peace
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Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat Speech to UN General Assembly
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