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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dextra" data-source="post: 2941595" data-attributes="member: 5705">Good gollyWell, I'm certainly glad to see that the ENnies, as usual, are sparking <s>controversy</s> conversation!About an hour ago (after dropping the eldest off at dance class, having picked her up from school after work), I came home to a fried CPU.  And all I could think of was how thankful I was that my computer didn't actually burst into flame from all of the traffic it has been seeing.  Fortunately once I gave it a chance to cool off, it came back just fine.  Now I'm listening to my fans chugging away, and being thankful that I'm driving to the city tomorrow so I can pick up a new one (although I'm not thankful for the expense, sigh... maybe I can bill the new fan to the ENnies?)Honestly, I'm glad for the discussion and constructive criticism.  However I'm going to ignore it for now.  There's no time for reform between this moment and when I get back from Gen Con.  I will keep an eye on this thread in order to make sure no disinformation is being spread, and maybe try and bask a little in the occasional (but oh, so wonderful) words of praise.  But for now, I'm going to concentrate upon working with the nominated publishers in order to maximize their visibility, update the web site, deal with my Gen Con and hotel convention services people, order trophies and medals, prepare to print certificates, mail the publishers, get the voting booth prepared, do a massive PR run in gaming media and other media about the voting and the awards ceremony, get our publicity materials ready for the convention, chase down some sponsors (just got an email informing me of the additional $700 worth of costs I wasn't counting on), do some damage control and ego salving for some publishers, keep up on my hate email, get the Dream Date and product auctions going and advertised, and maybe sleep more than five hours in a night.As I'm sipping my Growers Granny Smith Apple cider with a large storm fan aimed at myself and my beleaguered computer, I'm actually quite pleased with where we are, and how far we have come.  There's considerably less kvetching than in past years, and the flames are not burning with teh hate of a thousand suns.  We're golden.If there's anything important, email me.  If I don't get back to you within 24 hours, then my computer truly did go to silcon heaven, in which case, phone or send smoke signals.  Thank you everyone for your kind words and thoughtfulness.</blockquote>

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