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It’s hard to believe it’s been another year for amplizine. I’m curious if anything will ever come of it. God knows I want to find more time for it, but I would probably be lying if I said this year will be better. For now, I just want to recap the previous year and leave you with a little something else: hope. I know, right? From this pessimistic schmuck?

It was a difficult year for LilPickle. There were ups and downs, fast and slow, excitement and anguish. I was screwed over by the same people who blessed me. I settled in with a career and living like an adult. I even learned a thing or two about women. There are so many moments to remember… and it’s sad I’ll prolly forget a lot of them. Perhaps at the time, I would’ve been glad to get rid of the worst of it… maybe just sleep the week away. I even considered moving to escape the shit. But where would I be if they were taken away? What if the last year never happened so that I would be exactly as I was before?

2008-2009 was about growing for me. Mistakes are a part of learning, of course… I won’t bore you with crap you’ve heard before. What I want to share with you is the the forgotten part of the story of Pandora’s Box in Greek mythology. Just like Eve, Pandora ever so woman-like ruined it for us all. Sure, she unleashed all the evil and sickness on Earth when she peeked in the box–but don’t forget that she also found Hope jammed in there too. Hey that reminds me of the joke what’s the difference between peanut butter and jam?

I’m not arguing that it was somehow worth it to open the box to find Hope, paralleling it to the story of my past year… just that at least we still have hope. Time to pick myself up and keep moving. And it’s time for me to say something that I don’t say often enough: “Fuck that noise.” I once had a good friend who taught me a great deal of the process of fucking noises… you know what I mean. I learned my lessons and now I know better. There’s no sense in beating myself up over the crap, and I can’t expect I’ll never be disappointed again.

So I hold on to the hope that I’ll find the woman of my dreams, and she will be worth the wait. I hope that I’ll continue to be blessed by God in my well-being. I hope that my Android projects will be fruitful. I hope that I’ll find more time for amplizine. I hope that my Nova will ever return to vehicle status.

If you read this site, you may have noticed that the last post was in October. I have taken on a couple big projects that have prevented me from even doing any work on the site since about mid-October. One project is a year round thing while the other is a yearly project that will take up anywhere from four to six months of my time every year. Since I would still like to keep a hobby, I am leaving the site. Even though I enjoy writing, I don’t consider it a hobby. Hopefully, LilPickle will continue the site and get some of the old contributors back as well as new ones.

Well this was fun. Let’s do it again sometime.

Well, they had to start somewhere too.

Welcome all to the new site. We’re still working out a lot of issues and planning type stuff. For instance, what the hell makes amplizine special?

Still researching that.

Oh that reminds me. I’m going to get some reviews back on the site soon. Yes! You too can read our old reviews of movies and games that people no longer care about. Hey, at least it’s more exciting than checking your email one last time before bed.

As you can hopefully see, the site you are looking at is not using an original design. We are currently using the Daleri Sweet theme by Andreas Viklund. LilPickle has delegated me to create a new design. I’m currently busy working on three other designs so this one is going to be put on the back burner for awhile. Maybe LilPickle will come up with a design and I can just create the actual theme. One can only hope.

UPDATE: That Daleri Sweet theme lasted a long time (all of 20 minutes). Andreas Viklund is a great designer, but the design just didn’t feel right for the site. Hopefully, the one up now will last until I get around to designing one.

I have no idea who is going to be posting on this site. Maybe some of the authors will come back. Maybe not. LilPickle is in touch with all of them so he can provide more information. As of this post, LilPickle and I are the only authors. Have a problem with that? We don’t care. Any concerns or gripes you have should be directed to the the government of Azerbaijan.

As you can see from the tagline, we are now on revision 3 of Amplizine.com. LilPickle will come on shortly to explain the whole situation. Until then, I just wanted to mention that we have a lot of plans for the site. Whether any of them come to fruition is anyone’s bet. Seriously, we are now accepting bets on what is going to happen with the site.