Yes it does get dull sometimes. I've concluded that's not a bad thing since I can tend to get too involved to the exclusion of other more important things I need to take care of.
The "good times" you speak of were my own experience when I first got here too, but I found I couldn't tear myself away from it, to the detriment of other projects I should have been taking care of. Exploring my AS though, was also important, so the time I was spending wasn't exactly a waste.
I'm just glad now that many of the posts I'm seeing right now are "more of the same ol' same ol'," so I can spend less time here and more on the other things that have until now taken a back seat.
In short, it's all good!
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I'm not likely to be around much longer. As before when I first signed up here years ago, I'm finding that after a long hiatus, and after only a few days back on here, I'm spending way too much time here again already. So I'm requesting my account be locked, banned or whatever. It's just time. Until then, well, I dunno...