So in my desperate need for shiny distractions I went digging through the wayback machine and found some remnants of my first website.  Built it, with a great partner, from scratch and had a forum, chat, AOL Buddy Icons and everything!  This was 2001-2004.  

If ive said it once I've said it a million times - I wouldn't be @Curious for anything.  Being the owner is hard.  And as often as I've said that I've made it known I'm much better being @Destiny 's sidekick because I'm a lot less diligent about making sure every user has an optimal experience.  This is a message from 2003 after a server crash.  Name of site redacted because I don't want to be mobbed by fans...but if you were a former member of that site because the odd are probably an whopping .0001% of that happening then PM me right now!

Finding this made me stupid happy...

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Thank you to all who've hung in while this very frustrated and weary webmaster unexpectedly took time off. And thanks also to all those with no patience whatsoever...your e-mails telling me I suck just warmed my heart. Since I have a sense of humor, I'll take it all as a sign you're all *** junkies who desperately need me and this site. I love you all, too. 

To the message board folks who've just completely made it a great community, THANK YOU.

Amazing how things pile up like a landfill in one's absence. There's too much e-mail for me to even begin to catch up on so if you've e-mailed me and haven't gotten a response, I am truly sorry. Much of my e-mail was dumped by my server so submissions, questions, etc can be resent if you've the inclination to do so.

The guestbook is a pile of crap as is the chatroom. For that I apologize and as I collect myself here those things will come to fruition. ********* ****** has unfortunately been eaten up and swallowed by my previous server and it looks like those 1000 or so photos in the gallery are gone. I'm most sorry about this since a good number of them were sent in by all of you. Hopefully at some point I'll get the photo gallery rebuilt.

As you can see, I've had to really slim down the layout here out of necessity. I rather prefer a quick-loading slick site as opposed to a graphic-intensive dinosaur. And since I run the place, I'm going with it. Not to mention most of my software was blown to hell when the old Gateway crashed. Mostly all the old content is here with the exception of ******** ***** which is on the back burner until the main site is back on track. Some of the sections have yet to be rebuilt. It's a bitch I don't have a photographic memory and can't rewrite a few hundred pages of content off the top of my head. It would be SO much easier that way.

For anyone who read all the way down to here, you rock.  :)