ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 11/05/09

Back in December, NASA reported "Discovering" a Non-Carbon-based life form. This quickly turned out to be a deliberate misrepresentation: NASA *Engineered* the life form, they didn't find it. NASA then couldn't understand why the public lost interest, rolled over, and went back to sleep. This, of course, resulted in a great deal of annoyance on the part of NASA and the biological sciences: Why aren't we excited? Why are we so stupid? Obviously, it must be our fault.

Some months back, a guy named "John Doe" sent me a self-published novel to review for the site. I should mention that this is *NOT* the same guy who sent me one last year, but a different one. Just like last time, after reading it, I told the guy there was no way I could give it a good review, and I didn't want to hurt his reputation, sales, or self-esteem by doing that. He said "Okey Dokey," removed the book from consideration, and that was that.

This is *NOT* the end of the site or anything, but I wanted to let everyone know that I’m burned out. I’ve been fighting it for a while now, I’ve still been giving it a lot of effort, trying had and all, but in the last month or two I’ve become increasingly aware that I’m running on fumes as far as the site goes. This has happened before. I soldier on, I get through it. Today it came to a head, however, and, well, I’m burned out.

There were a number of factors that led to it.
1) A long term project that crapped out with nothing to show for it
2) A friend is dying