I guess I now really need to make a formal apology for my absence from here, and declare that I really have left the building, for quite a while at least.

I can't say my life has been busy, I can't say I've been going through rough times or that I've been lost from a computer. All the same, my account has fallen, quite frankly into neglect.

My life is now pretty much filled up with playing and practising music, in many forms. Before it was a hobby, and now I intend to pursue it as a career. In my haste to do all this I have not forgotten dA, but not been on it. I think HippieKing is a bit outmoded now, that love I have for the community still remains, but I am nervous about showing it now. I spend many hours lurking, I read all your comments, I see all your deviations and sometimes I write comments but don't post them.

I have created a new account, I will be everywhere I have been now, I will critique, I will post in the forums, god forbid I might even visit the shoutbox. But not as ~HippieKing.

I thank everyone for making my time as ~HippieKing so immensely enjoyable. I think you all now who you are. Do you really want me to list you?

I especially thank people who continued to give lovely comments on my page even when I neglected it. Yes, thank you Misha and plornt.

Everyone, have a very, very Merry Christmas! And a happy 2007!

Thank you, now and always, Jon.