• 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.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Posted 08/15/2025
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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Addendum: 01/10/2026
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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

What the heck is going on?

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It is what it is, but certainly not what it was.
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I think the whole world is going nuts.

  • There are some problems at the network operating center where my servers reside, which are knocking all my sites offline intermittently. Which coincidentally knocks people out of the chat room as well.
  • The load on my server has been intermittently peaking WAY over the limits of what is normal. But nothing is showing up as a finger pointing reason for it.
  • I had won a PayPal auction on a graphic equalizer for my home theater audio system and now the guy is saying he doesn't have it after all.... Says one of his employees double listed it. Funny, I was LOOKING, and I didn't see it.....
  • I bought a new rifle that is supposed to be new, that is NOT. And there is an obvious manufacturing defect in it as well. The dealer says he wants a 15 percent restocking fee for me to send it back.....
  • I hired a programmer to redo my banner ad software recently. He said he was mostly done, but what I saw was nothing at all like what I told him I wanted. Matter of fact, I'm not sure we both are even on the same planet. Luckily I haven't paid him up front, though...
  • Took one of the vans into AAMCO to have some service done a little while back, and come to find out they had OVERFILLED the transmission fluid by two quarts. I thought they were transmission EXPERTS?
  • I sent back my Starband equipment months ago when they offered to buy it back from me, since I went to Comcast. Not a dime from them yet. That was back in March....
  • Interested in getting a new digital camera body to replace my older one. Found a company that had a real good price on one, but come to find out that they are only available if you are willing to spend more money then they are advertising them for. Typical bait and switch..... I told them I was willing to wait until my cheaper version became available. But they cancelled the order anyway. And now they are advertising that model at a much higher price.
  • Had to ban two people on my CornSnakes.com site within the last two days.
  • I know there is more, but it's wearing me down even itemizing them all.....

The next time the world stops, I'm getting off.

But on the "not so bad" side, this site has been logging over 50,000 hits per day lately. Also getting over 9,000 unique IPs per day as well. But then again, maybe that is pushing the loading over the edge, so maybe this isn't "not so bad" after all.
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Addendum:

Oh yeah, Connie's crickets for her lizards were due in on Thursday. They're not here yet.......
 
1) It sounds like your life is VERY complex
2) And that many of your responsibilities are diverse, meaning they all have to be taken care of separately, which in turn can amount to a LOT of time.
3) Some of your consumer problems might be solved by letters from an attorney. Hang in there a few more years,lol.


We all appreciate you, more than you know. Thank you for giving us time, when there is so much going on in your life.
 
You take more abuse just on these web sites than I'd ever be willing to put up with~ I think I'm sticking with

Your either a Saint

Or you did something really horrible in a past life

You'd think either way you would have paid up your dues already with just that crap you take from the posters on the BOI.

Must have been something REALLY bad!
 
Yeah..... I just had to send one of the members here to the showers. Well whatever it was I did in a past life, I hope I had fun then while I was doing it.... :hehe:
 
either
1) it has something to do with the moon
2) they/it are all pocessed by demons
or
3) they/it are all on their periods

IT HAS TO BE ONE OF THE THREE
 
I am so possessed that even I rarely know how to spell it, unless it is in ancient greek or egyptian... besides, I kind of like your spelling better...


"pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name...whoohoo, whoohoo..."
 
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