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now most importantly, thank you very much everyone for the congrats. i couldnt possibly be more thrilled with how this turned out. i am still pretty much in shock for what this all means for life in general. it is crazy.
so i wrote up a thanks to the moderators for all the hard work they do that was fairly lengthy, but i think this one part of that will give you guys a good idea of where i am personally.
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Why now?
To give you guys an idea of what really made this choice clear to me, a little while ago my wife's surprise 30th birthday party was being held up in Pennsylvania. This birthday had some pretty special meaning to her and I knew how elated she would be with the surprise. I was dying to tell her because of the stuff she was dealing with but I knew it would make the surprise that much sweeter.
Two days before flying out I had to call her family and cancel because of this job. My wife had her surprise birthday party without her husband because I had to stay home and work on my internet blog.
Why am I working these insane hours while life outside passes me by? Will growing my company bottom line really reward me more than time with family and loved ones? I was given a chance to change my life, so I did.
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The Shack is basically my web homepage and I'm sure I spend more time here than on any other site. The chatty posters and the news & editorial staff play a big part in that, but props to you and Maarten for starting the place, setting the tone, and all the behind-the-scenes work I can only imagine to keep it rolling. And changing it as necessary.
Tiny story: Wayyy back in the day when I was new to the site and hadn't really figured it out yet, you posted something that a reader had sent in (I think it was for Stuff That Sucks) and I thought it was pretty mean-spirited & unfunny so I emailed you about it. I got a polite reply explaining that you were mocking the guy who wrote it. :-) So: Steve Gibson, never too busy to explain a joke to the clueless. Salute!
Hope you guys can look back on the deal and feel satisfied about the way things turned out. In any case you can be proud of your creation... and maybe not too creeped out by the little quasi-dysfunctional community that has barnacled on to it. Congrats dude, and thanks.
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