However, I am not able to accept your half-hearted, somewhat sotto voce quasi-resignation without a quorum present. Your confrères are presently engaged in field work on Wrangel Island (note improved sp) and are non-contactable.
Besides, due to the high viz, high respo nature of board membership, no other freeper has thrust himself forward. So, you will serve, i.e., will serve, until dismissed by Shermy. While we figure this out, we suggest you get off terrestial attacks altogether, and look into reports of Tasmanian Shark Attacks. There have been several. But with typical antipodean insouciance, the attacks, bloody and spectacular as they may well be, have been made totally without reference to the carefully nuanced animal attack calendar.
It's a jungle out there. (as well as a seriously mixed metaphor, to which you have contributed in no small measure with your cavalier attitude, in this of all things, an Olympic countdown year. BTW, The Greeks are pressing for octopus attacks to be included, but every octopus in their home waters has been marinated. Perhaps you could look into that, while senior staff considers your status?)