I'm dropping in here to explain my decision to go Walkabout.
The Forum here is better off without me. I cause too much dissention. Of late, it has become a running battle between me and Eddie and if I let this continue one of us will say something we can't take back and the friendship will be finished. I don't want that, I want this friendship to last until I die, which probably is not that far off.
Besides that, nobody really picks up on any of the newz stories I drop on, the conversations aren't about that stuff anymore. Nor do my food threads garner all that much interest. The conversations have been mostly about prepping and growing food and doing Macho Man stuff around the Doomstead. I'm a Cripple, not a Macho Man and I don't fit in. My advice and thoughts on this aren't respected because I can't do this stuff anymore. This is Eddie's bailiwick, so he should be the leader here now, whether he wants this job or not. I hope he doesn't quit, that really will kill the forum. It can exist fine without me, I'm a 3rd wheel around here now.
I'll still be here Admining, the Ghost in the Machine. I know neither Surly nor Eddie know enough about the SMF software to do a real good job with that, although KDog can do it if he wanted to. I'll still be writing articles for the blog as well. I'm not dead yet. However, in a way this is a test of whether the Diner will continue without me
When I'm Gone or if it will die. My hope of course is that my friends will keep it alive, even though my corporeal self cannot be kept alive. Now we will find out which is the case.
A Walkabout is what it sounds like, I may not be gone forever here. Maybe I just need some time off, a couple of days, a week a month who knows? I could walk back in any day as long as I haven't had my final meeting with the Grim Reaper.
In the meantime,
Keep on Truckin'.

RE