I find myself in a similar situation Major... It has been everything I can do lately to keep up with life in general lately, much less my overabundance of grow logs and various projects on here, and I too have found that I can not keep up with everything like I wish I could. I have helped out several people behind the scenes however, since I am always willing to help someone if they send me a PM to alert me to a problem in their garden, and it is no doubt one of them who nominated me. I will get back to trolling the new threads for problems when I can, for that is what I enjoy doing... explaining things to new people, hopefully in a way that turns them into productive weed farmers, in a knowledgeable and convincing way, before they learn a lot of bad information and habits. I think over half the threads I appear on end up going down in flames however and don't get a lot of eyeballs on them, and although I am as sweet as can be and try to be a social butterfly, I just don't have time in the day to do a lot of socializing on the threads or following along on 20 or more grow logs when things get busy, as much as I would like to. I do get curious about many of you, and eventually wander into your journals and rooms, but sadly it is less often than I should. It is a wonder I am known well enough to ever get nominated to this list, and I certainly don't think that I am worthy to win this thing when there are people like the rest of you around, helping people all the time, and just being fun to be around.
I too appreciate the nomination, no doubt from someone whom I helped last month... so thank you very very much! Being nominated for this award three times this year really means a lot to me and maybe someday it will be my time to win it, but this amazing board would not be what it is without all of you others who hold it together, the social crowd, the experimenters, the pros, the teachers, the mystics... and then the quiet little geeks like me, who occasionally get wordy.
Good luck everyone... I love this contest!