What happened?

He has already returned:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...ge=User:Viridae

22:37, 19 February 2008 Rdsmith4 (Talk | contribs | block) changed rights for User:Viridae from rollbacker to rollbacker, sysop ‎ (Restoring per request after voluntary resignation)

Got pissed off and started using language I would have normally told other people poff for using, decided I needed time too cool down, so i desysopped, created a sock, wrote a DYK and returned a week later, refreshed.

Apparently, he's gone the JzG route in using a sockpuppet to do some article writing, separate from his admin account.

I just said that...

[[Liasis olivaceus]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&action=history Guess which one is the sock!

Now, Viridae, you'll never get into the Cabal by writing an article about your fellow administrators AND pointing out your socks! You're supposed to be more discreet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=191536879

Not to mention more abusive.

Some anonymous IP has tagged the new account as a sockpuppet!

Yes I was quite ammused by that: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=193375715

The funny thing is, I clearly wrote that on the talk page. I am going to use that accoutn when I don't want distractions.

Sheesh, am i the only admin that DOESN'T use socks during a wikiretirement/wikileave/wikibreak? I mean, I'm still on break and have no plans to use another account.

Well, I don't use alternate accounts but then I haven't really had a wikibreak since I started... I must admit that I didn't edit this last Monday evening, and was so upset that nobody noticed that I almost took the rest of the week off - but then got scared that people still wouldn't notice....