I am starting to think the last forum I setup was a mistake in more ways then one.  I offered to take it over after it had been hacked a couple of months back, not realizing that one of the moderators had setup his own forum in the meantime and had used the Private messaging system to broadcast the fact that the site was hacked and that everyone should move to the new forum…his forum.  So after spending a couple weeks recovering the forum, converting it from phpbbs to Vbulletin, and customizing the skin, it is basically a ghost forum and worst yet, I have lost interest in maintaining it.  While I am currently into the forum for less then $400.00, the good news is that I can use the licenses I purchased to start a different forum or sell them if I shut it down.  The only really loss will be the time I spent in getting the site back online.  A major cost, but one I am prepared to live with at this point rather then put more time into the project.  Time I could better spent on other projects.

A year has passed since I started this blog, and I am quickly losing the desire to do something constructive with my life. I keep thinking to myself that I only have 18 more years till I can retire. Which is three years earlier then I had originally though, due to the fact that I was able to buy 3 years of optional service, but even with purchasing the additional years of service, It is still 18 more years. It has been just over a year and I am no closer to escaping from my cubicle then I was when I started, and worse yet, I am becoming complacent. At least that is how I feel.

I currently run a couple e-commerce, directories and forum websites. While the e-commerce sites and directories are running in the black, the forums are a long way off. Of course I knew that going in. I figured it would take at least a year or two to build them up to where I could monetize them. I look at them as my pet projects, but they are taking way too much time for pet projects and I am starting to wonder why I currently run more then one.

Over the last couple of months, I have started this post at least a dozen times, but for one reason or another I ended up just deleting it rather then posting it.  Looking back now, I now realize why.   I was trying to come up with posts that other would find interesting or useful and without any suggestions, I found it a daunting task.  So rather then post for others, I plan on posting to document my progress for myself.  So if some of the posts do not seem to make sense that would be why.  If you have any questions, just ask.  I will be more then happy to explain what I was talking about.