M’kay, first and foremost, I know I have a lot to explain about my recent inactivity. Let me just apologize deeply for that. Neglecting the Falcon boards is NOT my intention; it never has been nor will it ever. I took the job as Moderator to work (hopefully closely) with the members of the Falcon boards to make ourselves look more presentable compared to the other boards, as well as run into any new data, ATs, or other epic discoveries along the way. Unfortunately, for the past month or so, I’ve been unable to do so. Only very few people close to me know about my situation, most of which don’t even go on SmashBoards.
My primary computer, the one that I’ve always used to come on here, talk to friends on MSN, AIM, xat, make sigs on PhotoShop, read manga, etc. has been damaged for nearly half a year now. It wasn’t much of a problem until late April/early May, where the computer would crash consistently due to a (recently discovered) problem with the screen connection, namely the cable that projects everything on the screen. If the cable wasn’t present (or at least visible in the right position, quite literally), the computer would crash, which would abruptly end my MSN/AIM conversations as well as anything I was working on PhotoShop, which would piss me off most of the time.
I went to repairs to hopefully get it fixed, but the price it took to fix a 3-year old computer (which would undoubtedly run into more problems) was too much. I’d be much better off getting a new one, which I’m currently in the process of doing. Since my school works a lot with computers, they gave me a loaner which I used to get on SmashBoards and Meebo for contacts, since I couldn’t install anything on the computer (believe me, I’ve tried). However, the due date for the loaner was at the end of school, which I was forced to give up.
Since my computer has literally zero chance of working, I don’t have a laptop for the time being. But that’s really just one of the problems I had concerning my inactivity. Even with the loaner, I was busy with school beyond belief. I was piled up with so many projects during two weeks before finals (six out of seven classes to be exact), that I literally couldn’t leave the house. After the projects were finished, I had the study guides to work on, which also limited the time to go on. Not to mention that I have a job to maintain, swimming practice on every weekday, as well as friends to hang out with and other minor things. Although it’s part-time, if I don’t show up for a certain number of days (a different number if excused, which was the case), I’m easily gone.
After school was over, I thought I would have been fine. All I needed to do was go to Best Buy, get a new laptop, and everything’s fixed. But it wasn’t as I had exactly planned. Since summer just started, I was forced to work overtime for nearly a month to make up for the days I missed out on to work on projects and study guides. The typical schedule was to get to work at 9 a.m. and go home at 6 p.m., sometimes earlier. And very recently, two weeks ago, I was on (rather, still am for two more days) vacation to the Dominican Republic (which is absolutely amazing, might I say). As soon as I get home, I’ll make the best possible effort to get my proper computer back, but with guitar being one of my primary interests right now, it might have to wait a bit.
Now, some of you may be thinking, “Oh Falchion, you’re so full of ****,” or “But I see you on MSN/AIM sometimes…” or “Falchion’s a ****ing liar, he writes VMs every once in a while.” That’s true, I do. But that’s ‘cause I write them from my iTouch. That’s seriously all I can do. Connecting to random wireless networks with unknown signal strength is really just about everything I have to communicate with whoever contacts me there once every few days. I can’t sit there for hours on that little thing, contributing to the boards, answering PMs, locking threads, etc. when I should be doing all of that on a computer.
So… that’s my entire situation there. Once again, I apologize for not living up to the standards of a good Moderator. But I'd like to verily thank SuSa, Bunny, and anyone else who might've kept things intact in my stead. I promise to fix that whenever I get my computer back, if you guys are willing to give me a second chance at it.