Not really posting an absence, but whatever. :ph43r:

So after the december holidays, where work effectively doubles if not triples in the store i work in, the new year settles in. Now, i'd like to have said it would have gone off on a good start, but i'd be lying.

It sucked royally so far, basically.

First off, i couldn't get some time off due to me being the only person at the store that could both be missed from the store itself and still be trusted with a calculator. Yup, we finished the general inventory, and i'm stuck with adding everything up for the next week or so at least. Everything's written by hand, and some of the handwriting i get to make out numbers from is horrible.

Then work ends, and i get home.

Now, usually less than fifteen minutes after getting here, a guy i know drops by with his computer game problems. He's been unemployed all his life (medically discharged), and as such can't really understand why people would want to go to work. And he drops by my place five times a day at least asking if i can download something for him, or if i want to come along and play computer games at his house. While i enjoy computer games, i sometimes would like some rest, causing me to forcibly pretend i'm not home at times. This generally continues up to 1 am.

But that's not all.

Meet Norton 360. Legal version, of course. First, it uninstalls my old Norton utilities because it's a newer version. I'm used to it doing that, since it's not the first time i bought it. Thing is... It didn't install anything, just gave an error that there were still Norton apps installed (which there weren't), and links me to the support website for that error code.

The options listed (tried them all at least a dozen times each) didn't work. Neither did support, though after some veiled threats to download an illegal version next time they did help me restore the cd and dvd drives the cd installer had kicked out (thus being unable to read its own installation) by corrupting the registry entry for my cd drivers. Took six hours to fix.

Eventually, Hijackthis managed to spot a few leftover processes, which i then removed. 'Lo and behold, i had to enter my product key now... Needless to say, it claimed it was already in use: What the F**K. To make matters worse, a full scan by a -- hastily downloaded -- Windows Defender found two Trojans and an IRC logger on my comp, and i have files on here that were hard to find.

To this day, i don't have a working antivirus and firewall save for the standard Windows stuff. My video card now requires no less than three reboots before the driver stops crashing, locking my comp on startup every time i turn the power on, showing me that it is indeed getting old. No rest from there either.

Since all of this is starting to deteriorate my health, i then try bringing it up to both work (for a few days off) and said person (for some nights on my own), yet both apparently seem to think i'm drowning in free time, almost to the point of thinking i stare at a blind wall all evening. And point at each other in a very "Just let him/them rot for a few days.". Which i don't do, because i'm bnot the most assertive person on the planet to say the least, and have a hard time turning people down.

Add to that me hearing a few days ago that my uncle's been diagnosed with intestinal cancer (yes, it's spread, he needs chemo), and you can understand why i currently am trying very hard not to go psycho while trying to ram myself back on track.

So how was your month?

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Now, i need to say that i still like roleplaying here with all my characters, and have no intention whatsoever of leaving this forum. It's just that at the moment, it feels as if adding my old posting schedules into the mix would cause everything to overflow as i go over my limit, and might end up doing things i'd regret later on.

Really sorry to hear about all the troubles you've been having, indeed, what a month! And we understand about your scheduling limits, but what would you like us to do? Would you like to remain as Super Mod, same occupation etc as now but just limited access or would you like to hand over some powers and focus more on your own character? It's really up to you, we know Taves is already helping with Alderaan, so it's alright.

Anyway, let us know, and keep well!

So far, it's really too soon to be able to decide anything, so for now i'd like to remain as an S-Mod, though feel free to (temporarily) reassign 'my' areas to others until i can break this forced hiatus. Even though i'm not active, rest assured that i am still interested in playing my characters, and will return when everything sorts itself out ^_^.

Oh, and one day after posting that rant i fell down a flight of stairs (landed on my tailbone, six steps down. Yes, on the edge of another step) and managed to almost crash into someone on my bicycle while off to buy some groceries that night. His fault for not having his light on, but he managed to dodge me anyway.

*sighs* Oh well.

Hey Jin! I'm sorry to hear about all your troubles...makes my troubled weeks seem like a walk in the park, compared to yours :D

Anyways, come back soon! And hope everything goes well! :D

Well, everyting's solved or at least down to a manageable level again where i won't risk losing my mind over it anymore, so i'll be making my return here within the next couple of days.

Again, sorry for making all of you worry about me ^^;