I used to be really good at soccer. I wasn’t tall – but I was pretty wide, which made me a solid right fullback. I was a no nonsense player – no flash, no glitter – I got rid of the ball as soon as I could. Then ten years ago I partially tore my ACL. It wasn’t painful – just frustrating. Just over a year ago I started to play soccer again – and this time fully tore my ACL (while cracking both menisci … one so bad it flipped into the joint). Soon after I decided that I was not very happy with what I was doing, and started to make wholesale changes.

I’ve had very little to do with iBegin for the past 6 months, and as of this year pretty much down to zero. A few people already knew about this, but in general I’ve been pretty tight-lipped about it. I personally have spent the past few months catching up on reading, exercising, and just watching sports/movies/etc. I’ve gone from hyperlocal (neighborhood) to local (Toronto) to quasi-local (multiple cities) to stupid-local (full country). In retrospect I think the winning solution is to stick to “local” – even today, more than 25 months after iBegin Toronto was ‘turned off’ the site garners 10,000-15,000 pageviews a day.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some Plato to read.