Also watched August Rush on the “big screen” aka dining room wall. Fun!

Wow, that’s awesome – congratulations!

The science fiction novel? I’ve seen a couple small blurbs about it and wondered if it was a good read.

Piano sounds wholesome and fun, too :-D I will put Rule 34 on my to read list, thanks! Are you on Goodreads?

Yeah I am on good reads and a friend of Max Daniels. Rule 34 might be an acquired taste it really didn’t get good reviews but I really liked it.

I’m actually starting to feel a little angry about the site issue. Here we are, lots of us have bought annual subscriptions, we’ve developed cohesion as a group, worked out how to make use of this tool, and now this. Bah.

Do we know for sure that the site is going down?

Yeah, I’m a little angry too, having just signed on for a year. And this site and this community have become integral to my pursuit of health and other goals. Sheesh. I really hope it’s not the end.

Well, no… this is all kinda jumping the gun.
You’ll see in the “Flippa” box at the bottom of the right-hand column, that the sale closes near the end of June. And you can click on that box and go to the Flippa site, to see details.

But if the bidding doesn’t reach the “reserve price”, then who knows. It’s a possibility.

I guess it’s not a bad idea to have some idea of alternatives. The Wordpress site that was set up for our team could serve as an initial meeting point, I guess.

I vow to you guys to do my best to investigate the options as necessary and try to help create as close to a solution for our team as possible, however inadequate, as needed! If we could come up with something feasible it may even be better in some ways, in terms of privacy.

Oooo! A vow from Rachael! :-)

I wonder if there are other conversations going on, among other people/teams here, on this topic?

Didn’t see any on the most current “all” page but it’s a good question.

I just sent Buster an email to explore buying the site. I don’t know exactly how I’m going to round up the $$$ to buy the site just yet, but I’m going to look into some options after I have a chance to discuss some of the operational details of the site with Buster. This site is such an essential part of my day, and I think the community here is worth fighting to preserve.

Neil! Hurraaayy!
I do hope that works out !
I’m so glad you’re at least looking into it.

He says that he’s pretty much ignored the site for the past year, and it runs along by itself.
So maybe it wouldn’t take much time.

Then again, somewhere else he says that it generates income, but not enough to warrant a person’s full-time attention, which sounds a little contradictory.
Anyhow, Buster sounds like an honest guy, and I would guess that you’d hear the truth from him.

Or maybe if it takes more time that you have, you could hire somebody part-time to deal with it.

I will be sad if the site goes away. I love that we’ll find a new thing to do and the team can migrate to something else… Rachael thank you for the vow!

There are many free alternatives that we might be able to hack together. Probably need to do the rules thing in an un-autmated way, but I think the part I’d miss the most is connecting with the team, and that seems highly possible, even if just a Google group or Google+ circle or something like that…

Hear, hear! I’m glad that people are having ideas for alternatives.

I’ve avoided like the plague, all the social-networky things – everything except this one, in fact! – so I’m a little behind the times re what’s possible.

But I’d be game for anything that doesn’t involve Facebook or Twitter. Wait a sec, do I hear an echo? Is it just in my brain? :-D

P.S. — I love the idea that “we might be able to hack together” an alternative — and I love that there are people here who would have a clue about how to do that!
(it ain’t me, that’s for sure)

Yayy Niel! Many thanks for even considering it.

Yes, I think we can hack something together if need be, and hopefully avoid going in a direction that balances our various places along the tech spectrum.

What everyone here said. Possibilities and solutions, that’s so us.

What a powerful group.
I’d hate to lose it.

Thanks Brittany!!!

Annoyance and irritablitity are things I sometimes struggle with too. Sometimes real, sometimes imagined, lol! Anyhow, great job with your rules!

Poor kid! I hope she feels better soon.

Hard call.

Well she went to school seemed fine all day then had a complete meltdown at 9:30pm. I hope she didn’t infect her classmates the first day of summer vacation…..

I changed my profile to me and my sick baby girl. I was tired of looking at myself sideways….:-)

Breath easy, Diane. Weekend’s on it’s way.