• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

I'm Done!

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Just got home a bit ago. Finally retired after 33 years of maintenance at police dept and jail. I was overwhelmed by my co workers. I was given over $700 of power tools, $150 Home Depot gift card, $200 cash, around $400 gift cards for food or prepaid visa, a party with around 70 people that showed up through day. My wife and best friend told them not to do the surprise thing because I have a bit of social anxiety. Spent last 2 weeks getting my replacement up to speed. That is hard as I almost always worked alone unless it was a 2 man job. Probably going to take some time to decompress and not wonder what's going on. Then today I was taken for Mexican food with 2 of my favorite people then went back, turned in keys, got some handshakes and hugs and one of my friends who started at same time as me got snot all over me from crying, lol. Pretty good day.
 
Congratulations! So what do you plan to do now that you're all grown up? :LOL:
 
Wonderful! My local friend was apprehensive about retiring, but after a few months when I asked him how he was handling it, he said "I was BORN to be retired!"
 
I have decided to put off any major updates to house until spring. Wife and I are going through basement and attic and getting rid of things weekly. 40 plus years of stuff. Mostly wife and kids, lol. Went to BJ"s today and got my 2 pair of glasses I ordered and wife shopped real quick before the holiday crowd showed up.

Funny thing, Wife was leaving a store a few weeks back when this 16 - 17 year old kid came up to her and had a white mouse in cardboard box. He said my girlfriend gave me this and my mom will kill me if I bring it home. I have not fed live rodents in probably 20 plus years.

So now Larry lives in a very posh cage with many toys, tunnels, huts and wheels and he is attached to me, his snack dealer. He loves being handed cat treats and at night a piece of swiss cheese.
 
LOL! Back in the day when I used to keep burmese pythons when I lived in Maryland, I was having to buy rabbits to feed them. I had two Burmese at the time. I bought this one rabbit home, separated the pythons and offered the rabbit to the first one. Hmm. Not interested. Took out the first python and put the second on in with the rabbit. That one wasn't interested in it neither. WTH? I tried that several times. Usually they will hit a rabbit like a ton of bricks! Eventually I gave up, and suddenly we had a pet rabbit. Named him Thumper. Crazy damned rabbit would run around the basement, head straight for a wall and leap up to hit it feet first and ricochet off in another direction. He used to chase Connie all over the basement and she would scream running to and fro with the rabbit at her heels. Eventually we wound up taking that crazy rabbit to Connie's mom over in Delaware and left it there. It lived there for several years along with the ducks and the chickens.
 
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