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2/1/04
My dear fellow simmers,
Much as I love the Sims and Sim-creation, I must cut back a little on
the time I am spending on the website and playing in general. As a game/hobby,
the sims has been great and I have never seen anything like the on-line
community surrounding this game and it's mods. Perhaps it was a little
too great as it started creeping more and more into my life and I wound
up turning a hobby into almost a full-time job. Between creating, emailing,
coding, yahoo groups, forums and bbs, not to mention downloading and playing
(eeek - which I hardly get to do as much as I'd like anymore too) I wound
up without much time for my family. They put up with my obsession for
a while, but didn't seem to like my eating my dinners at the computer
all the time - can't imagine why. LOL
So, I am relinquishing the running of the site to the very capable Bacchus,
who's been admin for a long time here. She will now be handling the organization
of the updates, staff and answering most of the email for the general
questions about the site as well as making administrative decisions. Most
of the coding work for the site will also be done by our wonderful troupe
of admin - Greer, Vandi and Bacchus.
I will be getting back to what I like best, creation and playing, but
in a more limited capacity. My new creations will still be popping up
here and there on the site and I will also be updating the links page
(in place of Bacchus as she has her hands full now!). I will be continuing
the donations area as usual and still handling the site's finances and
paying the bills. I'm taking a bit of a sabitical I guess or maybe going
into "semi-retirement". :)
Unfortunately, I will not be able to make any promises about returning
emails or completing requests and I won't get to talk to y'all about the
updates every week on the front page. However, I am very happy to say
that we've heard from almost all of our creative staff and so far everyone
has agreed to stay. Bacchus will be bringing you the updates from here-on-in
so the site will continue as usual with great new objects, sets, walls
and floors and, of course, what we started out with - houses.
OK, I'm starting to mist-up now, so I'll make this short. It's been a
good couple of years and I want to thank everyone that I've come into
contact with; the donators that keep this site going and without which
we would have closed doors a long time ago, everyone who's commented,
sent in kind thoughts, ideas and requests or helped out in general, the
staff - especially the initial few and Manda and Melly who stuck with
me when I hadn't a clue how to organize more than my own downloads, everyone
who downloaded and used the items that I made. There is nothing like seeing
a door or window you created in somebody else's house - it's an awesome
feeling. Finally, I like to thank Bacchus for taking on so much and keeping
the whole shebang alive!
Who knows, my brother keeps threatening to teach me Maya - maybe I'll
be back with more when The Sims 2 comes out, but for now, I'll just wave
and say see 'ya later.
With much love,
jendea
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