Hello and sorry I have not been with you for some time. I know you are all madly refreshing the website for new updates and my family and I appreciate all of the emails, phone calls, and letters we have received concerning my well-being. Actually, I haven’t received any such correspondence, but I am sure at least one of you was thinking about shooting me a quick email and I appreciate your sentiment. To ring in this arbitrary change of year to “Two Thousand And Ten,” I have updated the look of the website temporarily until I can find a theme as awesome as the content. I have my doubts about whether that will be possible, but I have been assured by the “WordPress Community” that I will find a theme at least 75% as awesome.
Hopefully the (C)Han(n)uk(k)a(h) holiday brought the usual increase in sales that only the Maccabees and dreidels can provide and you are celebrating in grand style by purchasing me a bottle of midshelf liquor as a gift. It’s tax deductible if you tack on an extra 20 bucks to your next Salvation Army donation. My overall revenue was down slightly in December, but I ended up with higher profits (don’t tell the IRS) as far as I can tell. My calculations may be somewhat optimistic as I try to justify purchasing another 55″ LED TV for my upstairs bathroom. It’s just impossible to tell when there will be fourteen programs on I want to watch at the same time.
On occasion someone I know will bring up this website in “real life” conversation and the comments are usually the same. “Really awesome site bro, but most of it is just too technical.” I try to explain that I’ve dumbed things down so much that any moron should be able to grasp the ideas, but it seems as though my attempts at dumbness are for naught. Luckily I have been preparing content for the new year that I am sure will be just as mind-numbing as the last. Unfortunately, arbitrary date changes have limited impact on one’s auction blogging skills. Maybe the smash sequel to last year’s “2012″ will be “2010 – Josh’s Auction Website Gets Slightly More Popular.” Don’t hold your breath.
“Twenty Ten” promises to bring more changes to eBay. Personally, I am excited that the last remnants of “eBay Live” will supposedly be hobbling into Seattle. I plan to have you all over for a “pre-funk” before we roll out in yellow school buses to the grand spectacle which I imagine will take place at a retirement center just outside of town. There’s always a lot of hubaloo (my word, not theirs) surrounding what eBay will do to screw us all over in the new year, as if there’s some kind of eBay death panel set up by the liberals in Washington. I’ve heard Meg is running for governor so I guess anything is possible. Personally, I’ll just wait it out.
Should have a few articles dropping in the coming days. Nothing worth a movie deal I don’t think, but I’m sure at least one will be the next Watergate. Will catch you on the flipside, Josh
