WAG - Hello. Goodbye.
Note from canon revising: This was the first of two posts created after the new site was created. Due to technical difficulties, they never appeared. Still, I thought I'd include them as an afterlog.
For those of you interested, I think this site is dead.
Let me check... Searching for pulse... Nothing.
Yep. It's dead.
The term "legally dead" means one's primary organs (brain, heart, lungs, etc) have all been inactive for over 24 hours.
I think we've beat that by quite a bit here. Sorry.
This has been some time coming, though I apologize for not saying something sooner.
This was meant to be a college blog. It was meant to be a distraction before I took a final final my freshman year. Partway through, the computer ate the post – a scene that, while not becoming normal, would remain familiar over the years.
It took another semester and a half before I started again, but it seemed to stick that time. According to my online Blogger statistics, since October of 2002, I’ve posted 408 time, had 664 hypertext outbound links, and posted 162,366 words – not counting this post.
That’s either a passionate effort or something truly pathetic; I’ll leave that up to others to decide.
As my college days wind down (I’ve earned two undergraduate degrees and we’ll see if my post-baccalaureate student status ever changes into a master’s student designation), I feel like it’s time to make a change.
That’s not to say I’m done writing, as the freshly minted Live Paradox should show.
A friend of mine likened christening a new blog to starting a new journal. A new chapter needs to start on a fresh page.
I’ve loved working on this site – as proven by the countless hours that I poured into these entries for the sake of the handful that regularly read it (special thanks to all my close relatives who helped keep the viewing statistics inflated over the years).
Also, I’d like to send out best wishes to the lawyers of John Irving who, by choice decision or blind ignorance, never pursued legal action against this site despite the thinly veiled riff on his beloved modern classic. My double-digit checking account and I salute you. I suppose I might as well give credit to Johnny for putting the story to paper in the first place. Kudos.
The posts aren’t done yet. At least, I hope not. The burden is on me to keep it going, I know, but rest assure I pledge, to paraphrase the great naval tactician John Paul Jones - and to insert a second to last clause in this sentence before I wrap up this sentence, post, and site – that I have not yet begun to write.
'Good_bye__Hello'
