What follows is the truth and nothing but the truth (so help me God)
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I’ve thought this over for some time now…and only feel right about one course of action which I must do for closure. I am a pretty decent writer and realize I could take – what I see as – the easy way out by typing up a well worded, very convincing apology. Besides the fact that it would be lacking in truth, I personally don’t see that as enough and really think that is not fair to the site and it’s members. I had my role in this Juanita deal, a role exaggerated in the follow up threads *shrugs*…I really don’t care anymore though.
At this place in time, I don’t feel like I’m “qualified” to be a member at this site. Sure, everyone deserves a second chance…what about a 3rd? 4th? 5th? Site admin and moderators have been more than generous with their time both in this matter and others. Back in the Mike-ban situation, I saw the injustice side of things and I also saw the reason why the mods chose to do what they did.
I am officially “resigning” my position at timo
. I think of resigning as leaving with grace and dignity (somewhat) intact, versus never showing up again without any words spoken. My decision has absolutely
nothing to do with being prideful.
To those of you who may feel bad that it has come to this – don’t. There is more to it than meets the eye besides the latest; I’ve had this attitude for most of this year as some may know. Also, I would be making a similar message in three weeks, leaving for 5 months of training and all. Before all this happened, I highly doubted I would be back doing the same old routine, posting here in June…and still hold the same viewpoint now (things change, time to move on – I’m a realist). I really don’t
desire to be here any longer, and have felt that way for some time and please understand that even if I were suddenly granted member privileges again (for whatever reason), I would still not elect to post here for reasons previously stated in this paragraph and above. I’m aware this is a voluntary forum, that I don’t “have” be here - I was eeking it out until I left…what happened the other night simply resulted in an early retirement, nothing else
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On another note, I was pleasantly surprised to see Scott, Surreal, Fingers and KenKun come into the chat Brandon and I frequent to discuss the current situation at hand and to address concerns other chat members had. I am not sure how much was accomplished, but it was a very commendable thing to do, nevertheless.
With that being said…
ClubMed – Keep up the good work as the resident OpFor (mil-speak for opposing force) in the discussions on foreign policy and Islam
(learned a lot from you).
Knot – You have a great sense of zany humor…for an old fart
Out – You are one of a select few people here who I felt I was really friends with and you are in an even smaller group whom I felt I could
trust. I’ll miss seeing your raw sense of humor
One more thing, I asked Scott to change my title to “0wnered” because I feel it might help break up the downtrodden mood surrounding this by adding some humor
(“Resigned” would be l33t, too). Understandable if he doesn’t see my point of view
In the words of Epidemic/Dr. Evil –
“Stick that in your pipe and smoke it”
Later,
Warthog
PS – If anyone wants to reach me, you are more than welcome in an IRC chat room many of us frequent (Channel: distributedcomputing, Server: irc.ecompute.org). Or reach me by email at
warthog_ii@hotmail.com 
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