Real life is getting in the way around here and Jillgat will no longer be moderating in General Questions.
I’ve asked her to stay on and help us as her schedule permits, but she’s not officially assigned to a forum, she’s our part time utility infielder, so to speak.
Jill’s done some great work for us and her everyday presence will be greatly missed.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
maybe you should re-think this ‘allowing staff to have a real life’ option?
sorry to see her go.
Hear, hear!
From the day she found the possibly-obscene Sears ad (which I have promised never to let her live down!:D), Jillgat has been an insightful source of information on the facts behind a wide variety of hot-button topics, a level head in times of dispute, and a kindly mentor to the newbie. It’s been an honor to know her, and I hope that “real life” allows her to continue posting fairly regularly and occasionally moderating from time to time.
Congratulations, Jill! So, how long do you think you’ll be able to stay away this time, before they snare you again? 
This sounds like an obituary. Can I get you to donate to some of my favorite charities while you’re at it? - Jill
The only reason they let me out of the contract was because I insisted that you would come back and replace me.
Hey, I offered to fill in for you in GQ (I’m really good at that Science stuff!), but then Tuba made a couple of phone calls and manhattan and Doc Matrix came across the East River and did a Moe-and-Larry on me.
– Uke, delicately removing the big pliers from his nose
Well, the up side of this is that she’ll have more time to write Staff Reports.
Well, I never really knew Jill at all, but hopefully she will continue to be around!
Jill, best of luck on whatever it is in real life that requires your attention, and be sure to post a bit here and there.
I’ll be waiting for you to publish your memoirs of your years as one of the leaders (herder? wrangler? Teeming Leader? Leading Teemer?) of this motley bunch.
Ugly
I give you 'til the Fall.
[[I’ll be waiting for you to publish your memoirs of your years as one of the leaders (herder? wrangler? Teeming Leader? Leading Teemer?) of this motley bunch. ]]
Woo hoo. That would be a story.
Thanks, Ug.
Did you buy a motorcycle? You’ll be touring the country, right? When you pass through Dallas, let me know and I’ll let you know where all of the bikers hang out and I’ll buy you a beer.
Best of luck!
Hmph. Real life. That’s the big bug that we’ve been trying to work out of the Mod/Admin program for over a year. It almost worked on the slythe mod, but then it went haywire, renamed itself “Czarcasm”, and, well, you know…
I know we’ve been promising the Moderator 3.0 program for over a year now, but budget cuts and the recent invasion of Space Weasels has slowed the project down. We may skip 3.0 and go right into 4.0, which, ideally, will integrate cold heartlessness and a tactical nuclear response system…
Best wishes, Jill.
If you’ll remember, there was a work-around for that bug implemented not so long ago when “JillGat” attempted that name change to become “Jill Magruder.”
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83584
Sheesh, Tuba, don’t you know a scam when you see it? She’s just going to be waiting there for you to come crawling back on your knees with another coffee mug.
Yeah, but the Jillgat program has always acted funny. We tried to program in the standard GQ “Nazi Fascist Moderator” sub-routines - they were integrated perfectly into the Manhattan program - but they never installed properly.
Now, let’s take a look at you, Unclebeer. Your own programming code has been continuously degrading… must have something to do with all that alcohol absorption. In fact, weren’t you scheduled for a defrag sometime around now?
Good god, man…don’t refer to the manhattan project in public fora.
Loose lips sink ships.