I can't be bothered registering to comment sometimes. It's not the effort to do it but to remember passwords user names and other codes so thanks to those who don't impose it. For those I do obey and register, it is respect. But then there is wee BB. I want to comment but I just don't get the Blogger system and/or it seems to reject me once I think I am in. So I will post this here about the continuing restriction - is it a blue shift? - of active bloggerdom and why I am riding the downside:

Frankly - and I am not saying this about anyone but me - don't you have to develop a schtick of some sort to continue this insane hobby? I mean the beer blog has a function and I like that niche. The main blog I treat like a creative writing exercise as opposed to a creative "righting" one. By this I mean I am not out to fix the world but to note notes to myself. If I thought I were trying to fix and change I would also have to admit that I have failed. Dan Rather can only be brought out so often as "the example" of blogs at work. At best, it is like a multilateral post-card based penpal habit, not a lecture - never a lecture - let alone truth telling.