That you are laid off? Yes, it does. I hate that the economy is in such a place that good, hardworking Americans have to be laid off. But that treads dangerously close to getting political, so I will stop there.
As for the plethora of threads, I think there were a few that would have been better as single posts in the chat thread, but that is merely my opinion. At the end of the day, what it really comes down to is that we have something to give you a hard time over, and that is what is important. Like Dubz is a giant, like Murf is a crossdresser, like Moose is, well, Moose, you post tons of threads. Better than being Moose I suppose.
Have you considered maybe coming into the chatroom? It is slow going sometimes, but every now and then it kicks up during the day.