If you notice my diminished presence in the cellar, it is not due to any free choice of my own. As some may remember I established a new office for my business last fall. When i did that I started using the firm's equipment and connections because it is much more cost effective than setting up my own system in two locations. As my biz has grown i have transitioned to spending pretty much all of my time at the formal, firm owned office (50-60 hours/week).
i spend most of my day on the phone with clients or prospects talking about issues and concerns that i can handle in my sleep. i kept the cellar up on my screen most of the day and would post a lot. that finally caught up to me last week as i logged in to find that the firm's netnanny system had finally recognized the cellar as a BBS/forum and blocked access.
a couple cellarites, kind souls that they are, offered me insight on how to beat the net nanny and regain access. i am really tempted, but the reality is that IN THEORY due to the regulatory environment i am banned from participating in BBS's/forums at all. now that they have defined the cellar as such (stupid bastards aren't smart enough to recognize that this is acommunity
) i don't want to risk my licensing by messing with the firm's systems.
so all that to say this - i won't be posting as much. i will only have access from home and most of my home time is filled with entertaining a star wars fanatic... i mean playing with my son who also enjoys star wars. i will still post when i get a chance, but it will probably be even less than the awe inspiring Lumberjim as i do not have the luxury of a wife who understands the cellar for what it is. (but as some of you may recall, she is a bit of a nymph, so who am i to complain?
)
One final note: i have enjoyed providing the cellarite fact of the day and not enough of you have complained loudly enough about it yet... so i will continue with this habit. because i will have limited access and fewer posts in which people can see themselves singled out, effective immediately, i will begin posting the cellarite fact of the day in a new thread, name appropriately enough
Random Cellarite Fact of the Day.
thank you all so much for being my primary social interaction for the last
year +. i won't be here as much, but don't forget about me. i'm the thorn in your side that won't subside.