I started my bitcoin adventures in June when the price was 10-30 per btc. Now we're at 2.50. I'm not even sure it'd be worth mining anymore because it'd cost me $1.50 or so to run my machine for 24 hours and I'd only get about .5BTC per 24 hour period.

Who is in the same boat? Are you still mining with hopes it goes up in value again? I have to say, it's looking like BTC is plummeting and I've no idea how it'll recover.