People make New Year’s resolutions, so for my 1st post of 2009 I’d like to suggest that being sure your business affairs are in order should be a top priority this month.

If you passed away, could your family find your passwords? Would they know what to do to keep your sites going or have you left instructions about the best way to sell them? If your family closed out all your credit cards, would your hosting bill go unpaid and your sites go down without them even realizing what they had done?

This may be a bit of a downer way to start the year, but I started the year
finding out my right hand man and forum administrator is suddenly dead!

It left me wondering what would happen to his sites. His family does not seem to know anything about the Internet. He’s worked online since the 90s. I wonder what will happen to his business?

This made me think about my business and what would happen to my 5 Star legacy if I passed.  Which prompted me to write this reminder to all of you.

But now I’d like to say a few words about Larry…

Anyone who has been on my forum probably knows Larry AKA Larwee.

Larry passed away suddenly without warning. I just found out last night after sending the St Louis police to his home to check to see if he was OK. I called the police to check on him after becoming worried because he never misses work and because he sounded very ill the last time I talked to him. They aren’t sure what happened, but assume his heart gave out. Must have been too many fried spam sandwiches. ;-) (An inside joke that will make Larry chuckle if he’s up there reading this.)

Larry has worked for me 365 days a year for almost 3 years. Never took a sick day – in fact never missed a single day – not even Christmas. He worked tirelessly around the clock at the forum an average of 15 hours a day.

When my newborn grandson passed away in October and I had to leave town for his memorial, Larry worked for 3 days straight without sleeping. He would not leave the forum I had entrusted him with unattended while I was gone. That’s how he looked at it and that’s how loyal he was. That’s just the kind of person Larry was!

I know he has personally helped many of the 5 Star Forum members as well as generously giving out mod slaps to spammers whenever they were needed. ;-)
I know the forum regulars will miss him too.

He was my right hand man, admin and moderator. He and I ran the forum without any other mods, so I have no idea what I will do now, as I can’t run it by myself and Larry is literally irreplaceable.

I’d like to give a heartfelt thanks to Larry for all he’s done for me personally
as well as for everything he’s done for the 5 Star forum.

Larry, you will be missed!

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