I was going to post this on April 1st but I figured no one would believe me…

So I’m posting it today.

Gonna put Assorted Nonsense on hiatus for awhile.  I’ve really enjoyed blogging these last few years but my free time is kind of drying up.  I find I can’t put the time into my posts that I used to be able to.   The free time I do have for writing I’d like to put toward my fiction.  My novel is at two hundred and seven pages and counting; I need to spend more time on it, get the darned thing done.

There are other reasons as well.  For those who might be inclined to wonder, allow me to state categorically that I have not been instructed to shut down this blog by anyone.  I’m doing it of my own free will.  (That is, if you believe that any of us truly possess free will, which I wonder.)

I am doing it partially because recently I have found blogging to be a tad dangerous.  It’s all too easy to hurt peoples’ feelings.  I have been guilty of this on at least one post.  Recently I found myself riding an elevator with a friend at work and I found it a tad chilly in said elevator.  I wondered why.  Until I remembered something I’d written in the blog recently that hadn’t been intended to offend and yet was, in retrospect, undeniably offensive.  I have stricken the offensive lines from the record and someday I will find the courage to apologize in person.

It sucks to find out that as much as we strive to emulate Ghandi or the Dalai Lama we remain much closer in spirit to Harlan Ellison, whose caustic wit I admire but whom I do not care to emulate in a public forum.  So on hiatus we go, partially to remove that particular temptation, partially to free up more time for writing, partially because blogging has simply run its course for me.

Never say never, though.  I may pick it up again when I finish the novel.

In the meantime, so long folks.  Thanks for hanging around.  I remain accessible by email; you’ll find my address at the top.  I’m leaving the blog online; I may add some fiction and essays to the sidebar from time to time.

Who knows?  Maybe I’ll get out more.

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