Welcome To A New Era Of BrickNerd!

Happy New Year!

Hello dear readers, it’s been a while. While I announced on Facebook that I was taking a bit of a break from BrickNerd many months ago, I never really made an official post. But it only took a few visits over those months to figure that out I suppose. The main reason why is simple, burn out. And it’s not just the blog, I’ve barely touched my bricks at the studio, or visited Flickr, or anything else really. Between getting friend-zoned by TLG, COPPA crippling the YouTube channel, negativity in the Ambassador program and general apathy in the builder community, I needed a break. Then COVID happened, and a whole new level of distraction was heaped on. I’ve been totally absent, for that I apologize. I did get a 2020 advent calendar and thoroughly enjoyed a little playtime every day of December, so there’s hope for me.

But there’s good news to announce, while there hasn’t been much activity here at BrickNerd.com, behind the scenes some crazy cool stuff has been happening. The amazing Dave Schefcik is going to be taking over as Nerd-in-Chief! Not only that, he’s assembled an elite squad of contributors you’ll get to know in the coming weeks and months. And don’t worry, I’ll still be around (you’re not getting rid of me that easy). Hopefully soon I’ll shed this brick-funk and start building and blogging again. I’m staying on as a contributor, and changing my title to Founding Nerd. In the meantime there are spiffy things brewing, so stay tuned!

You all mean a whole lot to me, and since the creation of BrickNerd in 2013 it’s the readers and viewers that have made it worth it. You all rock, I’d give you a hug, but we can’t do that right now, maybe soon.