CafePress is ending their whatever-it's-called thing that I had in the left sidebar, so it's now gone.  Maybe I'll come up with something else to put there so the sidebars are balanced.

I've moved a few blogs from the "Other Worthy Blogs" list to the "Regular Reads" list, deleted a few that have gone silent for too long and two that I couldn't in good conscience provide links to anymore.

The post I was having trouble with was the one about Hogzilla.  For some reason it just wouldn't post.  I had to retype the whole thing manually instead of copying and pasting.  Very odd, but at least I finally got it to go through.

Been trying to think up some t-shirt ideas or something.  I have one, but am having trouble executing it.

It's still threatening to rain, but only threatening.

I've been having trouble posting.  Some very short test posts were okay, but longer posts aren't going through.  We'll see if this one works.

The button that inserts a link in comments isn't working again.  I don't know what did it this time.  But I guess I'll have to work on it again.  The really annoying thing is, last time its malfunction was caused by something that didn't have anything to do with html links or the comments.  So I don't expect the problem to make sense this time, either.

UPDATE:  Been tinkering.  It's almost certainly the Flooble expandable content scripts.  I knew it wouldn't make any sense.

UPDATE 2:  Fixed.  Had to get rid of the Flooble scripts and go back to the small scrolling windows for the blogrolls.  I guess there's just certain things you can't do with the base template without whacking out that button.

UPDATE 3:  I also updated the blogroll today, more or less.  A few that seem to have gone silent a long time ago were deleted, some were just marked "private" so they don't show up on the public list until I can decide if I want to delete them completely or not.  So if you disappeared and you still consider yourself active, let me know.

When I get time, I have to fix two different posts because of hotlinkers.  And one of them is a wh*t* s*pr*m*c*st forum.  I'll have to think up something extra special for them.

For the commenter on the most recent Guiliani post:  I deleted your comment.  Not because I disagree with your opinion, but because your homepage url was to a commercial website.  If you want to leave comments, either use a real homepage url or just leave it blank.

I have noticed that something seems different with Technorati.  Anyone else notice?  It looks like 25 days ago they stopped counting all the links from various blogrolls (like The Alliance, Screw the U.N., etc.).  So my Technorati authority has been dropping to more realistic levels.  In the past few weeks it has dropped from a high of 362 (if I recall correctly) to the current 319.  I expect it to keep dropping from there for a while.

Not that this matters to me.  In fact, I have long been considering trying to quit some of these extraneous blogrolls just because I know such high rankings present a false view of the extent of my readership.

And since TTLB has begun working again, I've finally dropped back to a marsupial.  I always thought that "large mammal" ranking was due to some kind of indigestion in the guts of TTLB.

My child care arrangements fell through for this weekend, so it looks like I won't be able to go to the Blown-Eyed Blodgers thing in Kerrville.

I was really looking forward to meeting some other Texas bloggers face to face.  Especially El Capitan, whose blog I've been reading since I can't remember when.

Maybe I'll still take them to the gun show, since they've both been wanting to go.  I spend so much time there keeping them corralled that I don't hardly get to look at anything, though.

For all my legions of loyal readers:  I think I'm going to have to slack off even more than usual.  I don't know how some of you other bloggers continually keep coming up with stuff and finding newsworthy stuff to post about.  It has become too time-consuming for me.

So, I'll keep putting something up when I can, but I'm not going out of my way to hunt down news articles anymore.  It's wiping me out, and there are too many other things to do.

Besides, there are other bloggers out there who are much better sources of information than I am.  I think I'll be doing weekend-only blogging for a little while, just to give myself a little break.

I will say that there are several blogs that I don't see myself going without reading, so I'll still be around.  Just don't be surprised if there isn't a whole lot of activity here for a while.