I am sorry for the lack of activity here besides what gets posted on the message board. I never would have thought after the last chat in August things would have gotten so busy for me. It seems from September through till now everything on my standard list of "things to do" piled up so fast I couldn’t keep on top of it. Of course besides my full time work, I had personal family events that happened in the time of my last update. And I was busy pretty much every two days I had off for this entire span, on things that had nothing to do with my computer and I barley got to it. Sundays were spent doing personal things or just, dare I say, getting out of the house and doing something else for once, and Monday’s were busy with my bowling league and running errands. I know you could take these as lousy excuses, but seriously folks, things have changed and I’m trying to get too many things done all at once which is leading me to getting nothing done at all.

When 2007 started I was so gung-ho on getting working on this site. One thing lead to another, and here we are almost in 2008; after totally going off track and getting busy with others things. I’m not even close to wrapping up usual "year end" computer tasks for 2007 and by the time I get to those it will be spring 2008. I have so many other online fandoms and check so many things daily when I get home like e-mails, image boards, certain DA accounts, other artwork sites and message boards, music blogs, etc, that by the time I get through all this shit I only got an hour or two before I have to hit the hey. I don’t even have time to watch TV anymore like I used to, or watch what I taped on the VCR from what I miss at work – I usually don’t watch it under the week and end up with over five hours of stuff and don’t have time to view it till the weekend, and then I usually fast forward through some of it because I do not have time to even watch it. Things I used to do online often, I barley can do anymore. I mainly answer e-mails once every month now and that’s bad.

This site never really made the comeback I wanted, things just got away from me (I’ve repeated that phrase more than I care to count). Now three months have passed and no updates. I completely forgot to post any feedback on the last Craig Bartlett chat and I do apologize for that. Sad thing is I don’t have time for this site anymore. I haven’t vacuumed or really organized my room in a year, and have so much crap piling up I feel I’m never gonna get through it. I’m turning into a hermit. Same thing with computer files – SO MANY projects, its already 2008, and I’ve lost motivation for many of these projects simply because too much time has passed, and yet I refuse to be beaten by this ever lasting issue and still want to complete things I started years ago because I owe it to myself. I have that feeling of always wondering what would have happened if I have had the time.

I started the year watching HA! and now the entire year has blown by and I haven’t watched a single episode. It’s been at least three years since I’ve seen a lot of the episodes and it just isn’t the same anymore. I hate growing up – in all aspects of everything. Try as I might to hold on to this childhood fandom of mine, adulthood sweeps in and keeps pushing me away with other responsibilities – and working full time is one thing that kills my free time. I wish I could quit working for a long while, perhaps if I had a couple years off I’d make some real progress on my computer. But then again I’m so PC whipped (the term my co-workers use) I barley go out anymore and I can never get my priorities straight in what I should be doing in my life right now. I’m a sad case. I hate getting old. 23 I will be. Fawk. I need a break and 2008 doesn’t look good and I already feel I’ll get nothing done by the time 2009 rolls around. Even writing out these homepage "speeches" are become more of a chore for me and I don’t have time to even write them. This took me six hours to type and get on the homepage between doing other things. I had another chat planned for this site later on next year, but I could very well just scrap it. As for the chatroom, for Java users the page is down. The chatroom is still there but you need to download a chat client to reach it. It sucks and I hope this doesn’t stay like this forever or this chatroom will be finished for the year it’s been running. Nothing seems to stay the same for too long these days.

With HA! stuff I fell so far behind this year. I remember chats from 2004 I was going to get to editing, but then my old laptop died. I never did get to those. So many unfinished things. I have several Word documents with things do to, unmodified since late 2006 with much of the stuff in them going back even farther time. It kills me to see all the things I wrote down all those years ago. Reading things from my younger self, when I had such big dreams for the site and to complete so much for it. And everything got away from me (déjà vu again!). It’s really quite sad. You visitors and now 700 members of this site may think Arnold’s Room is great. In my eyes it’s far from anything but great. It’s not complete, it’s still a mess, and I never thought by 2008 it would have looked like this. Terrible. Utterly, utterly terrible. For more information and details about what’s been up with me and my hopeless mess of computer files and unfinished projects, click here to view a thread I started concerning the subject.