I searched and searched and couldn't find any other way, unless maybe if I were to just sell someone the account, but who would even buy an account annihilated like this by @adm? I did later find in the FAQs that it was changed to 13 weeks, but actually in the process I learned that YOU CAN NEVER FULLY POWER DOWN, as you are always required to leave 5 steem in. Plus, the only way to add additional earned SP during that period is to cancel the process and restart it from scratch. So at least from my perspective it seems you can easily invest into steemit, but you are never able to fully get all your funds back and I don't recall ever seeing any sort of legal disclaimer of that fact when powering up.