Hi guys, long time no see.
Well, a lot of stuff has happened in the last few weeks. I've not been around for a while, yall know that. I let PuF take over my time at work. Well, when someone spends all day posting an average of 23 posts a day for 7 or 8 months, it gets noticed. While yall know I'm the Network Administrator at my place of work, we're a remote office. Well, it seems they started monitoring the firewall traffic and found I was spending a rather inordinate amount of time on non-work related sites.
Guilty as charged. For someone who's job it is to watch over other's access, this was pretty stupid of me.
Well, thank god my direct boss is a good man. He went to bat for me with the home office (they wanted me fired). After that we talked it over and I told him it would stop right away, never to happen again. I told him he wouldn't regret it. And as yall know, I'm a man of my word.
That explains my time away from the PuF family. This doesn't mean I'll be around any more than I have been the last 2+ weeks, just felt I owed yall an explanation.
Lately, things have changed on the |C|ondemned side of life. I seem to have let Unreal Tournament get in the way of spending time with my kids (Ali, Serena, Michael). Recently (last 3 weeks or so), |C|ondemned reached #1 on Teamplay and Proving Grounds, as well as #5 on OGL. We accomplished far more than any of us really dared to dream. I guess after reaching the "peak" I was able to look back at how I got there. I found that my 3 year old barely knows how to count to 20 and doesn't know her ABC's. And my 20 month old, while he has a good comprehension level, he doesn't talk nearly as well as I think he should. Not what I expected to see upon reaching such a "proud" point.
So, I've removed myself from the Proving Grounds 1v1 DM ladder where I was #2 (XS|Pain took me out hard!) and from the 1v1 RA ladder where I was #1 and undefeated. I've removed myself from active status with |C|ondemned possibly only to play emergency backup for the occasional match. They want me to stick around, but most likely for the server.
I hope I've not lost too much time from my children's formative years. I can only hope I'm not too late to be the father they need me to be. As a friend of mine said.
To their credit, all of |C| has been supportive of this decision. For that, I wish to publicly thank them. Not a single one took a negative attitude about this.
I just wanted to say thanks to all of yall, and everyone in |C|ondemned, for making my UT ride a fun one. Without PuF & |C|, UT would have been just another game. I'll stop by from time to time, but if you wanna say "hi", just drop me an e-mail.
For those of you who made it this far, I'm impressed.
Good night "yall".
Well, a lot of stuff has happened in the last few weeks. I've not been around for a while, yall know that. I let PuF take over my time at work. Well, when someone spends all day posting an average of 23 posts a day for 7 or 8 months, it gets noticed. While yall know I'm the Network Administrator at my place of work, we're a remote office. Well, it seems they started monitoring the firewall traffic and found I was spending a rather inordinate amount of time on non-work related sites.
Guilty as charged. For someone who's job it is to watch over other's access, this was pretty stupid of me.
Well, thank god my direct boss is a good man. He went to bat for me with the home office (they wanted me fired). After that we talked it over and I told him it would stop right away, never to happen again. I told him he wouldn't regret it. And as yall know, I'm a man of my word.
That explains my time away from the PuF family. This doesn't mean I'll be around any more than I have been the last 2+ weeks, just felt I owed yall an explanation.
Lately, things have changed on the |C|ondemned side of life. I seem to have let Unreal Tournament get in the way of spending time with my kids (Ali, Serena, Michael). Recently (last 3 weeks or so), |C|ondemned reached #1 on Teamplay and Proving Grounds, as well as #5 on OGL. We accomplished far more than any of us really dared to dream. I guess after reaching the "peak" I was able to look back at how I got there. I found that my 3 year old barely knows how to count to 20 and doesn't know her ABC's. And my 20 month old, while he has a good comprehension level, he doesn't talk nearly as well as I think he should. Not what I expected to see upon reaching such a "proud" point.
So, I've removed myself from the Proving Grounds 1v1 DM ladder where I was #2 (XS|Pain took me out hard!) and from the 1v1 RA ladder where I was #1 and undefeated. I've removed myself from active status with |C|ondemned possibly only to play emergency backup for the occasional match. They want me to stick around, but most likely for the server.
I hope I've not lost too much time from my children's formative years. I can only hope I'm not too late to be the father they need me to be. As a friend of mine said.
I think he hit it on the head (this was in response to my "semi-retirement" post in our private forum).Your family needs you more than we do, so please tend to them and integrate yourself as a father, not as a gamer with the occassional "role model" skits.
To their credit, all of |C| has been supportive of this decision. For that, I wish to publicly thank them. Not a single one took a negative attitude about this.
I just wanted to say thanks to all of yall, and everyone in |C|ondemned, for making my UT ride a fun one. Without PuF & |C|, UT would have been just another game. I'll stop by from time to time, but if you wanna say "hi", just drop me an e-mail.
For those of you who made it this far, I'm impressed.
Good night "yall".