Hello all. I've been out of the loop for quite some time, for one reason or another. But I'm back. I hope some of you remember me.

So it seems to me that things have changed a bit in the hobby. Last week I tried to setup some time with a few reviewed providers. Emails with RS2K verification details were sent and it took days to hear anything. Then it seemed like trying to date a chick: I'd hear back briefly but then questions went unanswered and there was even an appointment scheduled for this evening. She was a no call, no email, no show. Then I tried calling a few others. One didn't answer, the other told me that the weather was too bad to go out. I'm going to try that on my boss tomorrow. What's happened to the work ethic?

It seems that back in the late 90s and early 2000s, it was the simplest thing to pick up the phone and have a girl show up. Now you might as well be out on the dating scene: providers are fickle, unreliable and unresponsive. If the hobby were used as an indicator of the economy, you could be forgiven for thinking that there's no unemployment, universal health care flourishes and the money trees are in full bloom.

[end rant]

But then maybe it's just me.

Things are looking up. I've just called the ever-reliable ECE, a service that is unparalleled, in my view. Arrangements are now in hand .

So: welcome me back .

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