If I may make a comment, your play time was already quite poor before your sad news about your grandfather. You have not been on since June 8, and the time before that was May 31. I completely understand about your grandfather, as does everyone here. If I may ask, and you can answer this when you get the moment, as I understand you have a lot going on right now, what has been going on in the last 3 weeks that prohibited you from playing on our servers? Is it going to occur again, should you be accepted? Obviously forum activity is big once you become an admin, much more so than play time, but you're currently a candidate, and I feel your play time is quite important in that regard. You also did not garner any more support from your server regs, even after I suggested it. I am just making these observations. Do you think it would be in your best interest to put off your application for a few more months to ensure you have the time to devote to the servers/the community, especially considering your current personal life situation that has just come up, as well as have good community support? These are simply questions I would like you to ponder (outside of the one about me asking where you have been for 3 weeks, which I would like answered). :blush:
I understand the concern, and my apologies through and through, I believe it would be best to postpone my application tentatively until the beginning of July. 'Breaks' like this are far from normal in my life, and this month has been full of them, I don't know what it is about this month and family matters, but they have dominated my time, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable next couple of weeks. My grandfather did pass away, requesting that I was to be in the room to hear his final words and to be with him for his final moments around 8 o'clock in the evening yesterday at the Virgin Mason medical center in Washington, he thankfully left the world with a smile on his face. Prior to his passing, around the last week of may, he called me, wanting me to handle his final affairs when his time came (We knew he was sick, but it wasn't displaying major symptoms at that time, but we certainly knew he didn't have more than 10 years on him), and to be honest has been quite a complex and aggravating matter, but it is one that can't be pushed aside. I expect to have my 'normal' routine return by the end of the first week of july, but depending on how his life insurance cooperatives, among a plethora of other things, it could be a week later at worst, or a week earlier at best.
I suppose to summarize:
These gaps in my normal life are not typical by far.
I have not been able to get in-game, much less steam, so continuing to find more regulars who can support was impossible (or rather, via the methods i know i could have used to contact them), I would like to postpone this application until the end of the first week of July to safely return to my normal schedule, I do plan on committing/devoting time here and hope to garner up a more respectable amount of time on the servers when able, and then maintain said activity.
I look forward to returning
Suppose update/edit: I was called by my grandfather on the week before June, but was still able to fit in the task and time on steam/tf2/skial until roughly midway through the first week of june, I suppose I should have made a post prior so as to inform the possibility of the sudden change
