First, HUGE thanks to S2 for minding the store while I have been lost where ever it was that I was lost (below). Particularly as the absence turned out to be much longer than planned.
Also an interesting lesson learned … I have been futilely trying to recruit guest bloggers for many months, and it turns out that all I really had to do was disappear; who knew? 😉
Lost?
A planned absence of a week or so extended because:
- I’m an idiot, and catching up with everything once I return invariably takes much longer than anticipated;
- Apparently when there is a break for whatever reason I find that I extend it to catch up with things that get neglected when I am full on blogging (dishes, laundry, life etc);
- I also pretend that I am going to clean up the backlog of links and reading, but in fact I invariably make it worse as I wander the the climate blogosphere;
- My ancient computer is dying, seriously dying. I am getting a new one and it will arrive someday, but in the meantime this one continues to randomly die which could mean more disappearances in the next little while;
- My internet access stopped, and I assumed it was related to #4) above. After working on it for almost 2 days I discovered that the problem was my ISP … but by this point it Fri eve at 7 PM, before the long weekend … ir no one at the ISP office. All told sorting that out took almost another week, sending me back to #1).
Mike
Greenfyre's 
I was beginning to wonder where the [expletive deleted] you had got to … [1]
But I’m very glad you’re back. 🙂
It was kind of fun, but I hadn’t appreciated just how much work is involved in running a blog like this (it’s my first experience at this kind of thing). [2] I now have even more respect for you and the many others who run successful blogs.
And my personal thanks to everyone who commented in your absence.
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Aye, I’ll keep posting as long as you’re happy with the posts.
It will be occasional, though- having a full time job and being a student doesn’t give me much free time.
Maybe I’ll fire up my own blog when I’ve graduated.
I run a local blog with a significant eco bias that is now in its 3rd year (I link to local green businesses and write about my attempts at being green).
Even that has it’s moments!
I posted an article about the ridiculous number of cafes we have in town and the fact the big corporates have moved in putting at risk the locally run cafes.
I then got comments from local cafe owners suggesting one particular big corporate cafe was filthy and had ants crawling around the walls!