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To: ggersh who wrote (1490)	3/18/2010 5:03:55 PM
From: SI Bob	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 221780

TYVM and no worries. My having taken you to task on it publicly, while strongly against precedent set by myself and Jill over a decade ago, isn't indicative of some really egregious violation or anything else negative like that. It's that I've seen proven by Matt and Dave what I always suspected. That unfettered by many years of one's own precedents, doing Admin work publicly more often than not is a huge time-saver. Warn one person publicly, at least ten potential future violators of the same rule saw it and won't need a similar warning down the road. Do the same privately, and I've increased the number of members who know some words just aren't said here by exactly 1. Not much ROI. And when finally starting to shoulder the load of a particular job as one of many important ones I must do alone, but in this case a job that accounted for the lion's share of my headcount in a previous life, you can bet I'm going to incorporate everything I've learned from observing truly great Admins as partners and employees, especially when it really wasn't that long ago I averaged 60 hours a week doing just this one job. One that simply cannot get the bandwidth of things like, oh, getting the green stuff into the bank, for example. If I indicated you'd been warned previously, I mispoke. Admin history doesn't record warnings unless the Admin both issues the warning or comment or whatever, then manually documents it in the Admin system. What I saw just now when looking at your account again is that you're a free member, so have limited daily posting ability, yet have written over 4600 messages in less than 3 years, only 6 of which have been deleted, and the number of people who have you bookmarked is a large multiple of those who have you on Ignore. One way to look at it is that if I had another thousand folks here like you, along with the thousand or so of other "types" of members on my birthday wishlist, I'd be laughing insanely on every trip to the bank. Actually, I do that now. But it's as a self-defence mechanism because I've learned in 50 years and 364 days that insane laughter is more cathartic than the sometimes more appropriate inconsolable sobbing. And it really does get old for the tellers when you keep coming in with buckets of tear-soaked Benjamins and sob "Dump this into the furnace too, please, and remember to keep the buckets for me since I'll be back with them refilled tomorrow." Anyway, you just got a gratis one-month upgrade to Premium as a way to convey my thanks for your having so strongly contributed the one thing that actually makes me more money (causes me to bleed less of it) than you whipping out plastic for a subscription -- CONTENT! I can monetize the heck out of content since quality content gets quality advertisers and also begets more quality content. Subscriptions are awesome because they not only are a stable revenue stream, so it's reliable money, but it's one heckuva "Cool site" ego boost. Actually, I just read a number of your posts. Okay, the birthday wishlist is for perhaps a few thousand folks like you, if that's not too much to ask. Seriously, it's my 51st tomorrow. Know what I'm getting? A financial colonoscopy looking for how on earth I spent $76k on equipment repairs on a side business that has yet to make a penny or produce a single watt of the electricity the business exists to do. I think the YouTube (TalkzillaBob) video of "Scuba Cat" did show the auditor that perhaps I wasn't playing loose with the facts when I spent more money repairing than I spent buying a track loader that, as shown and discussed in the video, was simply stuck and was in the process of being rescued, when a gulley-washer of a rainstorm put the machine (and, later, an even more valuable machine) out of commission for two months while putting my tractor mechanic's kids through school at the same time. Though I could've done without his pre-teens suddenly being chauffered to school in a new Merc with "THX BOB" as the license plate. And to bring this ramble full-circle, I wonder if the proctol.. I mean auditor saw and what she felt of the vid I put up of the sight of and my reaction to the self-inflicted expensive injury which, yet again, didn't trigger the Chuck Engine light in my 08 Subaru STi. How is that full-circle? Well, I adjust my language here to be in keeping with our more high-brow vibe. In that vid, I'm seeing the evidence of a second blown-up engine in a car I ordered early, ensuring I'd overpay for it, and whose value was neatly halved once others were destroying themselves due to inferior quality pistons and an "Oops, our bad, but you still have to pay if it caused you to break yours" computer tune as they sought more power under tighter emissions requirements. And in so doing, seemed to forget the very basic notion that if you fuel-starve the engine suddenly to limit revs, you're playing with fire when you're making 305 horses out of an engine half the size of a 215-horse Mustang engine. And that you have to be in the midst of an epic Sake binge to not have it occur to you that leaving the turbo at full boost while performing said fuel starvation might cause things to go badly awry in an instant. Wait! Isn't this supposed to be full-circle? In that vid, I gratuitously and, I think it's very apparent, very angrily use exactly the same word we were just discussing. I do remember two uses of that word, the first of which was directed at Subaru and the second of which mentioned me. While running.