to the people who can’t understand why I’m shutting down my participation in the community listings for the next two weeks

To the people who are writing and asking me to make exceptions for deadline I set for the community listings:

I am very sorry.  These two weeks are the last two weeks of 2012 that I can completely enjoy my family before work goes to a seven day a week schedule through the end of the year.

I am sorry that you may not have seen the announcements that I posted and reposted every day this week in anticipation of this last vacation of the year.

I’ll recopy the announcement that ran every day this past week again in case you missed it over the course of the past 7 days-

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If you have an announcement for the Community Stuff section it needs to be submitted before the 30th.

Please do not send in anything after the 29th of April.

The blog will still be updated every hour on the hour from 6am to 8pm.  I’ve been working hard to pre-schedule two week’s worth of content during my scheduled times and you’ll be in very capable hands with the rest of the GMG crew who I know will step up and keep the quality at the high standards that you’ve come to expect from us.

Thank you, the boss.

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I would appreciate if you could cut me some slack for these next two weeks and not write in and ask me to make an exception because it pains me to not be able to help you but this is a commitment I’m making to my family.

 

I’ve worked tirelessly to make sure that I have pre-scheduled two weeks worth of quality Gloucester content for you while I’ll be away and the rest of the GMG contributors I’m sure would be happy to help you.

If you receive an email in response with a link to this post please pardon the brevity of my reply.  I simply won’t have time to give meaningful and heartfelt apologies to each and every person who may have missed the pre-announcements about the deadline.

Thanks again for your understanding- Joey