Thanks to all the gentle readers who hung in there for this, my longest fic ever (and you just thought it seemed long because of the boredom).
I do have to say that I resent the comments that implied that seeing waffy parts in my story were somehow 'unusual'. All my fics are waffy... really.
This story marks the end of my 2004 output and signals the beginning of my sabbatical. My plan is not to offically retire, (that never seemed to work too well), but to take 2005 off from fanfic writing.
The hope is, that if I get the desire to write something, I'll work on an original novel idea. It's something I've (sort of) always wanted to do, but am notoriously lazy and so don't stick with such things. I figure if I don't have the 'distraction' of writing fanfic, that maybe I'll work on the novel. Well, that's the idea anyway.
I'll still be around some, but I am losing my computer soon. Which means that I have to decide which of the throw away vignettes I've done for the boards over the last few years (such as some of the haircut stories) I should send to the archives before that happens.
With the plethora of newer writers all over the boards these days, and the large corp of prior writers still going strong, my meager efforts will not be missed.
Thanks again for all the support over that past years, and wish me luck.
Tank (who knows that the gentle readers will understand completely)
