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To all of my friends who dropped off of the face of the planet once I clicked the "Delete My Account" button, thank you. I whole-heartedly thank you. You have opened up an immense amount of time for me to put into what needs to get done. I now have a plethora of time to spend creating things that matter, things that I enjoy doing. I am overflowing with gratuity towards you.

Okay, I admit it. That last paragraph was full of snarky, asshole-ish goodness and I own that. Take a moment and put yourself in my shoes, then walk around a bit. I honestly do not enjoy learning about which applications are sucking the lives and time out of the people I care about. In turn, I couldn't give a shit less about how they are wasting their time. I do care, however, that they have allowed themselves to be sucked into a constant state of advertiser fodder. And, the fact that some of them may be pumping actual funds into these networks is sickening.

I know, you are probably saying, "Ray, you have a Google Ad strip in your sidebar. You're talking out of both sides of your face." I can see how that may appear to be the case, but the facts are: I have never made a dime from that sidebar ad and you fucks don't click on it so I can make money. I don't care if you do, either. I never planned to make money from it. It has always been more of a "what if." My sites aren't caked with them and they never will be. I want to own every pixel on my sites, and I don't want my readers to be ad fodder.

I guess the point I'm trying to get at is that I want to be Better. That's right, I capitalized Better because it's my new mission statement (if you will). I want to be Better, I want the things I do to get Better, and more than anything I want to do Better for people that I love. So, at the risk of being a total hypocrite, I'm going to drill down on this thought of "Better" and I'll write more on it as I go.