So I received an e-mail from a friend/blogger/reader who asked me if I was also giving up blogging, as it seems to be the rest of the personal blogosphere has, considering my recent lack of activity when compared to my previous levels of activity/posting.

Short Answer

No.

Long Answer

Allow me to be emphatically clear and concise when I say to you that I am NOT giving up this blog or blogging in general.  Indulge me as I explain to you exactly why it appears I haven’t had the same “level” of activity as I have previously.

First, I didn’t really believe (and still don’t) that I needed to come out with a post explaining that I wouldn’t be posting daily.  The truth is that if you are like me, you read blogs through a Feedreader.  When there is a new post, the Feedreader will list my blog title in bold.  When there is no new post, the Feedreader will not show my blog title in bold.  Pretty nifty, huh?  Additionally, unlike 2006, I now live with a hawt blogger.  If in fact I was in the hospital or incapacitated in some way I think people realize she would have blogged or Twittered something about it.  Therefore, no news is good news… unless of course we BOTH disappear off the internet.

In which case just watch CNN.  We’re bound to pop up somewhere.

Like in the trunk of a car.

Secondly, as I did previously mention this time of year is usually off the hook for me between work, graduations and other occasions.  I’m currently working under three NDAs, two of which will REALLY come after me if I inadvertently say something about the “client”.  The third… eh… well let’s just say they are getting a bargain from me but opening my mouth may sink any future I have doing this type of thing with those types of people.  So work blogging is definitely out, there’s really not much going on at home other than which kitty puked what color furball up, and there is a drought of good reality tv to spout off about.  Of course this comes at a time when I battle a deep almost crippling depression unmedicated… but let’s be honest… I will in all likelihood be on a Xanax and Vodka cocktail in less than two weeks.  Good times… good times…

Thirdly, just what exactly was I supposed to blog about?  Did you really want me to talk about social issues like…

• How intelligent Christians should declare a crusade on Christian Fundamentalists who condone violence against Pro-Choice supporters and doctors.  Because if we can’t declare a crusade on our own… then what the fuck was the point of the schism???
• How California is obviously the land of the dense seeing as how first they voted for Prop 8, then there were actually people there who thought the California Supreme Court was going to overturn Prop 8, and then they vote to NOT pass a budget while they are the biggest suck on the national economy.  Dumb, dumber, and dumbest.  Sink into the ocean already and let the rest of us be free of your ambient stupidity.
• How Al Gore needs to put his big boy boxers on, go over to North Korea, and rescue HIS reporters even if it means sucking up to the head Ding-Dong.  I really hope he wasn’t the one who gave them the faulty GPS… cause I smell liability lawsuit.

Or maybe you wanted me to talk about what other bloggers have done to piss me off like…

• How asking for advice, then ignoring the advice given, and then blogging about how you really should have listened because things did not work out in the least how you originally planned and doing what you were advised would have been better says alot.  Like that you have a listening problem and no matter what advice or insight we offer into your current situation, it will just be ignored and therefore why should we bother.
• How Spaghetti O‘s is NOT a product of Chef Boyardee.  It is a product of Campbell Soups and they are the trademark holders.  Don’t go throwing the Chef under a bus for Campbell‘s crap… he’s the man!
• How if you were really giving up blogging, then you wouldn’t be blogging about giving up blogging, because you’d have already given up blogging.  It’s like that Tropic Thunder revelation, only it has to do with blogging.

Or maybe you wanted me to talk about the state of social media because we all know how much you LOVE those posts *snicker* like…

• How Twitter has really jumped the shark since being featured on Oprah.
• How Facebook is a much more powerful network to get your message across.
• How while Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, and Facebook are all networks you can participate on actively they are still just the spokes… and your blog is the hub.

Now does any of that sound interesting in the least?  Sure maybe at a quick glance it does… but in the end once I allowed the emotion to ebb out of me (because let’s be honest again… I’ve been a bit quicker on the passionate-rage-trigger enough that it has a stupid meme calling me a Pundit Blogger) I came to the conclusion that to me, it’s really small stuff.  I don’t sweat the small stuff.  That’s not to say that to YOU it may be small stuff… because to you it may be big stuff… and that’s really great because I’m a big believer in being passionate about something.  That’s what YOUR blog is for.  Go at it!  Me?  I’m going to continue staying a little lower key than usual because like I already said… I’m not sweating the small stuff… and to me right now its all small stuff.

When I initially started blogging I did it so that I would get into the habit of writing on a daily basis.  On the journey to achieve that habit I’ve met alot of awesome people, made great friends, got a girl I love to bits, and been places I otherwise would have never gone.  That is something I am grateful for, something I hope will continue, and something I am not going to just stop doing.  If anything, I’m expanding it.  As for writing everyday… well… I have been.  I’ve been writing the things I want to write about.  Just not here because here is not where it fits.  It’s not something I’m going to publicize here because I don’t think anyone here would have any interest in it… but it isn’t all that hard to find either.  Unless you’re a non-clicking fool… in which case… well you deserve to wonder….

But hey… not to leave you flat or with a bad taste in your mouth… here’s a finale in the vein of Poppy…

Look! It’s Optimus Prime and Bumblebee Bobbleheads!

Oh no!  It’s a Megatron Bobblehead!  Each was only $12.99 at 7-11!!!

Where did I get the money for such extravagant Bobbleheads you ask?

I USD TEH KITTEH FUD MONEY!!!
TEH HOOMAN IZ SMART!!!

*No kitties were starved in the making of this post.  They just have to eat Florentine or Shredded for a meal or two until I get to the ATM

See you when I see you.

Or until the Momma gets home to kill me.

Whichever comes first.