>Lyristeon: Another hard one like Grurk. I had my moments where
>I thought you were ####ed up, and then I’ve had my moments
>were I thought you were great. I’ll remain neutral to you

You sound like one of my followers after they decide to delete. "I don't know what happened, but it was fun!...I think." Hopefully the was for the times when we joked around.

As for the other stuff you posted, there is very little for me to say about your experiences. I haven't been an imm as long as you, but my experiences as for how I have been treated compared to how others who came up after me are consistent with business.

Granted, I have had to deal with two years of hurricanes which cut into my time and my in between times haven't really been all that productive. I have watched several heroimms pass me right by in the promotion process. I can honestly say, during those times, I did not deserve any promotion of any sort. I have a lot of hours at my current status and have had it explained to me during promotion times why I didn't get one. I was sincere when I told them I didn't expect it.

Before the storms, I was planning on continuing my upward progress and now that I have been back since December, I am doing what I wanted to do all along. Build a better place to hang out. When I log on, I log on to create, teach, rp. The response I am getting now for the work I am doing compared to before when I was only able to pop in now and then is quite different. I had been relegated to being strictly a rp imm and that just isn't enough to get the bump nor was it enough to even get an attaboy every now and then. I feel like I am part of the team again since I have been able to contribute more than just time. In the few years I have been around as an imm, I saw Ordasen as a rp imm. Don't take that the wrong way. I liked you as a person and imm. I just didn't see any of the teaching and creating part. You were higher level than me and for all I know you could have been doing areas, coding, writing, mentoring etc without me having known about it.

But, if you weren't doing the writing, mentoring, coding, etc., and thinking that a promotion should have happened just because of time at that level, I have to disagree.

I do agree with you 100% on the issue of fun. If you aren't having it, there is no reason to stick with it. This is meant to be fun. I wish you the very best in all that you do.