It’s been 4 years since JBL showed real signs of life as an active participant in the fan community. However, things are changing around here and I thought I’d offer up an explanation of what happened and what the site will be going forward. (Knock on wood.)
Those of you who’ve known me for a long time know that I’m actually not the most social of individuals. It’s just one of those things– I tend to keep drama and things to myself rather than dump it other people. After all, we’ve all got our own problems, right? As recent as four years ago, JBL bordered on a full-time job for me. I was compiling the Daily News five nights a week, monitoring the forums, and writing reviews of everything from classic Generation 1 A Real American Hero figures from the 80’s to Generation 3 25th Anniversary figures. What started as a hobby had developed into a site and from there developed in something that was slowly taking over my waking hours. It was a labor of love– an outlet for a passion dedicated to a group of characters that inspired me all throughout the 80’s. That was when “real life” began to intrude. My energies were split in too many directions and I had things outside of Joe that required more and more of my attention. Aging parents, changing jobs, and health issues both personal and family-wise… all became more immediate than a site dedicated to “little plastic men.” As such, the site suffered as I stepped away more and more.
As they say at the beginning of every episode of Supernatural, that was “Then:”… Let’s talk about “Now:”.
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