Explanation Owed

All right so I’m back in charge of the website, hurray!  I was gone for close to two months and from the “hints” that were put up on the website throughout October indicated I was going to come back on October 25 but I didn’t officially make my come back until November 21 the day after the Marvelous Land of Schnoz was released.  Before I get into the reason why it was so delayed with returning let me first explain why I left.  Really it’s a stupid reason, there are a lot of more serious reasons that I could have left for, some of which occurred while I was gone which is why it took so long for me to return after the October 25 return date.  When I left in September I was really stressed out about school as it was.  Every September it’s always very hard for me to adjust from doing nothing for three months then bam nothing but school for thirteen weeks straight until Thanksgiving.  It was also the ending of “back to school” season at work (I work at Staples) so that too added to my stress levels.  It was getting rather hard to maintain the website as well as working extended hours at work while maintaining my school work.  I was also getting overly stressed about the election, more than I should have been because it was September, because at the point I think McCain was either ahead or gaining ground in the polls.  Then one day I found out something that just made my stress levles snapped and I just couldn’t handle everything anymore.  I had to give up something so I immediatly left the website until things cooled down.  To make a long story short there was this girl that left in 2007 and when she did I kind of went a little crazy when she did (ok so that might be and understatment).  If ASSC wasn’t down when she left I probably would have left then but since Kyle basically runs Blue Apple I didn’t have to leave I just had to put up with filming where I just breakdown in the middle filming and start laughing as seen in Numa Screw Up and in the second Mounties’ blooper reel.  But yeah I went a little crazy then and a bunch of stuff happenned and I had to slowly piece together my life and it took me a little over a year to get everything back to normal and smoothed out.  Then in September I come to find out that she was coming back and what was worse was that all my friends knew and didn’t bother telling me so I lost and I snapped so something had to give and that something was the website.  So she came and went, never saw her though we did talk briefly.  Things started to settle down.  Work was giving me less hours because the economy was going down the toilet and I was able to have a steady pace with my schoolwork.  Now it was time to decide to come back.  I picked October 25 because I had a report due the 22 and figured I would give myself until the weekend after the report was due to come back.  So Dan I staged this whole thing with the “hacker” and the “gremlin.”  Just that Dan forgot to tell Kyle and the two started to go at it (at first I thought nothing of this as I had told Dan to tell Kyle to have the two of them “fight” over control of the site).  So I had to explain everything to Kyle and he decided to follow everything.  All right well my professor decided to extend the due date of the report for another week so as Dan and Kyle were finishing their preparations for the gremlin/hacker thing I was slacking off keeping with the election still instead of finishing my report.  So the 25 was approaching so we “shut down” the site so it only linked to the Wizard of Schnoz promo so I could start and finish my report and Schnoz.  I was going to finish it over that weekend but my dear cat Lillian who I had for so long and literally grew up with died, her liver failed and she died a painful, agonizing, horrible death…poor cat.  So instead of doing my report and working on Schnoz I was too busy attempting to cope with my loss.  Luckily there was that extra week to work on that report, right?  So I took advantage of that extra time and worked on my report (which I managed to pull a B out of my ass on) instead of working on Schnoz.  Now it was the final days of the election so I once again put off coming back.  The election cam and Obama won and there was much rejoicing, we even filmed an Early Early Late Show but Kyle lost his camera so it won’t be uploaded until he finds it.  He’s an English major so it’s probably buried under several rough drafts of one of his papers.  So the election came and I did the whole ASSC is in the Land of Schnoz thing as I worked on Schnoz at Dan’s house because he had Flash and I did not.  Due to our different schedules, though we work at the same company with the same job and title, I could only manage to work on Schnoz once a week for a few hours at Dan’s house.  Finally I finished it and the rest is history.  I hope I cleared everything up for everyone and I apologize for everything.  Unfortunately the gremlin/hacker thing didn’t work out as planned as I was trying to get Alby involved without Kyle or Dan’s knowing (Dave was supposed to be involved too but he ignored all requests but Dan knew of Dave’s involvement).  Like Dave Alby ignored me.  It was supposed to be that I ended up being the “gremlin” and Alby ended up being the “hacker” which I tried to imply with the ending of the Marvelous Land of Schnoz.  Oh well.  It’s good to be back!