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Jesus fucking Christ.

I’ve been busy lately.  You know? Busy. Which is cool. And one of the projects I’ve been working on is a personal one: taking over the admin of one of my favorite low-carb sites. and i’m excited about it: it’s a huge opportunity for me, not only to work on a cool project, but to give something back and manage a site that’s considerably bigger and busier than anything i’ve ever worked on.

 and you know what? i’m stressing!

today was the first official day of our 6-month trial period. (i know–i chuckled when i realized it was april fool’s day myself.)

When A., the site owner, first approached me about this, i was both honored and excited. so many possibilities! she hasn’t had the time or energy to devote to the site in a long time, so it’s been kicking along primiarly through the efforts of the moderators and a reasonably active forum area. if not for the community, the site would have died probably long ago.

however, a. wants to keep it going for the community. enough that she’s willing to pass up what have probably been some very good offers to sell the domain in favor of keeping it open for the folks, you know?

and at first, i was all over the place. i had ideas running out of my head like a schizophrenic, attention-deficit-disordered squirrel on speed, man. all over the fucking place. a. backed off and disappeared for a while, and i went on with having a somewhat difficult summer. i ididn’t worry about it. i figured things would happen when the time was right, and i’d had a very, very good feeling about the project from the start. so i just went on with my life.

fast foward. after some time passed, i contacted a. again, and acknowledged my initial flakiess, suggesting a more measured approach. i didn’t hear anything, so i let it be…except not too long afterwards, one of our main mods quit for a bit over an…uh…a personnnel issue, i suppose. a. flipped and decided it was time to get going on this. so get going we did.

i have been working on ideas. i’ve been studying search engine optimization and google ad optimization and trying to figure out what i’m doing. this is a solid, if somewhat neglected site.

and here we go: today’s the big day. i’m nervous. i’m still not clear on how much involvement (uninvolvement?) a. wants. i know she wants some involvement, and i know she wants some space, but i haven’t figured out what goes where yet. i have no less than a couple dozen questions any given day and i’m trying to find the right balance between pest and renegade.

according to our agreement, she owns the site,  and i will do admin in exchange for the site revune for 6 months, at which time we’ll negotiate if i want to buy the domain from her and become full owner. so here i am on a mission: i’m worrying about upsetting people and getting stuff done and how people are going to respond to the changes i plan on making and whether i’m going to be successfull and la la la-de-dah. i have 6 months to do something, and i plan on giving it my best, man.

so i am posting ALL this stuff topday–on the boards, announcing my new assistant (and god do i need an assistant!), posting about me taking over admin, posting in the mods-only thread about how do they feel about retiring inactive mods, what the upcoming stuff is, blah blah blah.

in this frenzied process of trying to feel like i’m fucking doing something, i decided to make a special admin thread, for me, a. and and my new assistant admin to discuss what’s up. that was, a. can check in as she wants, or not when she wants, we can talk easier, and it just should help, i’m thinking. so i do this…but in the process…

i managed to completely FRY the permissions on EVERY SINGLE topic in the forum! nobody could she shit excecpt unreigstered or logged out users for a few minutes.  can you say AGGHGHHHH!?

damn. :oops: 

in other words, i’m talking about removing permissions for inactive mods to have fewer hands in the backend when i (temporarily) blow the backend up my FUCKING self! jesus fucking christ, man. can you beat that shit with a stick?

i did get one, very important thing accomplished today, though. i changed the adsense code to pay my account. geez. and now, i’m taking a goddamned break.