Wow, what a horrible time for the blog leader to leave the blog. Page views dying due to people hating the new system and DFO leaves for vacation. Understandable, but unfortunate. I'm actually laughing at the irony of it/Sam.

DFO: I consider this to be a perfect time to take a breather. Not only do I need one (badly), but also I learned the new software fairly well last week and hit my goal of 2.5M page-views for the year. Yeah, the page-views are off by about a third. But that has more to do with Google and other search engines not finding the new HBO yet. The strength of the blog is indicated by the strong comment section that has already migrated here. HBO'll be fine when we kick back in gear Jan. 4. It might take awhile to get back up to speed. But we'll get there. And we'll eventually get this site custom made like the old site was.