I think I'm done now.

I'm leaving you Jerry, and I'm taking the monkey with me......
Jim Carrey = me.
Jerry = facebook.

Let's face it, facebook is nothing more than a glorified chatroom with a chat feature.  How redundant is that?  It provides a nice distraction from time to time but I'm just not into it anymore.  It'll be hard to leave some of you but those that need to reach me have my cell #, email address, Alpine Garrison forums, or some combination of the three.  If you don't have one of these and would like it, send me a message and I'll get some contact information to you.
 
I plan to bookmark some of the golden nuggets I've found on here but I'm planning on leaving facebook behind.  This is not any sort of stand against "the man" (a.k.a. Mark Zuckerberg) but if "The Social Network" had any truth to it, Mr. Z. is kind of a jerk and since I don't have any creative videos to share and I wouldn't know how to post them to youtube if I did I doubt my absence will have any sort of major impact on my wall.

Just so everybody knows, I'm not a big believer in reposting stuff that says "Repost this if...".  I simply want to go on record now as saying I am not ashamed of my belief in Jesus Christ, I hate bullying, I know people who have suffered from cancer, I think child abuse is abhorrent, sexual predators should be castrated, cruelty to anything or anybody is a serious character defect, porn websites should have the .xxx extension so they're easy to block, and I support the teaching profession even though I'm not in that field.  Lest people think I'm a horrible human being, I care about these issues, just don't equate lack of reposting with lack of empathy.

Actually, now that I think about it I think I'll probably go in baby steps and begin by going facebook free for a week or so and see how it goes. My close friends aren't that close anymore.  That's mostly geographic but I haven't talked with any of them for quite some time.  I haven't been able to pin that on any concrete reason, we've just kind of drifted apart.  I still plan to blog from time to time but facebook won't be a medium used to let people know it's here.
 
During whatever time I have left on facebook you probably won't see me posting much besides humorous status updates.  Nobody cares what I ate for breakfast or needs to see yet another picture of me in a Star Wars costume.  I looked back through my pictures and honestly, how many pictures of a red stormtrooper can you see before you're tired of them?  It's kind of cool that I'm one of only seven (currently) in the world...
(http://www.coloradoconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=684784#.TsAfZVawVT8) but you could say the same thing about a rare butterfly or something.  Quite simply, I like to laugh and to make others laugh with / at me.  Humor is my way of dealing.


To my 501st / Alpine Garrison family, I can't troop like I did a year ago.  My schedule simply won't allow it.  I'm not professing to be too mature for trooping (I can't see that happening), it's just that now I'm required to work during the time that 95% of the troops take place.  I hate that I have to do it but the trade off is that I get a second attempt at something that might resemble an actual life.  At my age I can't afford to dilly-dally or squander the opportunity.  I don't commit to events simply because of a conflict of schedule but I always feel guilty about not explaining why on the forums.  I may still have the temptation to do so but if I don't, just know that I always wish I could be there trooping alongside you.

I hope this finds all of you well.

-LG