{"id":5385,"date":"2025-07-10T01:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexbridge.com\/blog\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2025-07-10T01:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T05:44:14","slug":"as-i-was-saying-page-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexbridge.com\/blog\/as-i-was-saying-page-2\/","title":{"rendered":"As I Was Saying &#8211; Page 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Life got in the way.<\/h2>\n<p>2008 was a terrible year for TXB and me That entire period between 2008 and 2015 made me reevaluate why I still continued to work on this site.<\/p>\n<p>Other things that were happening were more important than talking about a cartoon block.<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather whom I was a caregiver of got sicker. In June, my uncle died suddenly. Then in late July, my house got struck by lightning and I lost my computer and a lot of my work. I lost cable around that time toon. In September, Toonami ended.<\/p>\n<p>Then, my grandfather died that November.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to rebuild myself and TXB months later. I wanted to refocus more on things I liked. People wanted me to talk about a dead TV block and ONLY a dead TV block.<\/p>\n<p>Around this time, I created a stand-alone blog known as <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtnami.blogspot.com\"><strong>Thoughtnami<\/strong><\/a>. The story of that site and why I came back there is explained <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtnami.blogspot.com\/2024\/06\/thoughtnami-at-20.html\">in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, somehow, Toonami came back, but my heart really wasn&#8217;t in it. The night the &#8217;90s kids didn&#8217;t sleep, I was losing sleep over my mother&#8217;s health. 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