Joyride R.I.P.

Well, I did it. My old blog is no more, having just now been deleted from the universe. It was not something I did lightly. For the four years that it was in operation, and for all of it's 1700 posts, that blog was something that I really enjoyed during those dark years of depression and inertia. I looked forward to posting in there every day, I enjoyed the regular feedback I got from it's gang of readers, and there was a whole bunch of stuff I came up with in there that I really liked. So it was with a somewhat heavy heart that I pushed the self-destruct button. But it was time. In keeping with the new program, it was time to let go of it and let it die a peaceful death. Even so, I feel a little sad that it won't still be out there somewhere.

Before I did it, I took a quick comb through the remaining posts to make sure I had each and every last Kudoverse post saved in my own files. I'm not losing those. While looking I found some other stuff that I worked really hard on, and I debated whether or not to bring those over here, too, and ultimately decided not to do so. There were a number of wrestling matches I wrote for my old forum, and even though I put tons of blood and sweat and tears into their creation, I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to read them outside of the group they were originally written for.* And so I've said goodbye to the most of them (some of them were already saved during earlier purges, and one or two of them may show up here --- I don't know). It's an era that's past, and I've long since learned that it's impossible to recapture lightning in the same bottle, so it's probably better to let them rest, too.

*unless I happen to meet the ultimate fangirl who'll enthusiastically read anything I write, but what are the odds?

Now that that's done, I have another thing to do, which will also be done with a somewhat heavy heart, if only because I'm a sentimental bastard, but it's something else that needs to be done. Maybe tomorrow on that one.