Last year in April, I took a month off from this blog. At the time, I considered just shutting it down for good. After more than a year and a half, I was tired of it. But, after some time off I came back and have, for the most part since then, posted on a pretty regular basis.

Now, a few months away from 3 years, I think that time has come. First of all, I’m finding it difficult to make time to post anything to begin with. It usually takes some time for me to compose a post (I tend to spend too long trying to decide if it’s what I want to say, and then still often change it here and there after it’s posted.) But even more of a problem is the fact that I’m finding it difficult to actually want to post anything. I have thoughts about various topics, but then just don’t want to put forth the effort to try to organize them into a post. In short, I’m tired.

That is, in part, due to stress right now. I’m pretty stressed at the moment due to various things I won’t go into right now. Nothing major, really, but I stress out over pretty much everything, and unfortunately, I don’t handle stress well, particularly when there are several different things contributing to that stress. Lack of sleep is one of the manifestations and it’s been a long week (preceded by several other long weeks in recent months.) Again, I’m pretty tired these days, both physically and mentally.

I’m finding it hard to find time to do things I really want to do, and dealing with online stuff has become too much of a task for me right now. I checked my reader this morning, and I’m currently subscribed to nearly 140 feeds from blogs and other sites, and I’m about to cut that back by at least 50%, if not more. I used to scan for headlines I’d want to read, but I don’t even do that anymore in some folders. I find myself too often just clicking “mark all as read” in several folders and figure it’s time to let them go.

So, for the time being, at least, I’m going out of business. “Everything that’s on my mind” is just too scattered right now to try to put into a post on any kind of regular basis. My online presence at Facebook (see right sidebar) will remain and I might even occasionally post something over there if I feel the need. But for now, this will be my last post here. The site will remain up for a least another month (as I’m now paid through late next month.) After that, it may go away or I may keep it online for a possible “comeback” in the future. We’ll see.

For now, that’s it. That’s the blog.

Well, after about 6 days of downtime due to issues with my host, I’m back in business.

I’ve had several thoughts for posts this week but, clearly, couldn’t post them. So, I’ll probably post briefly about several things tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m backing up the few things that weren’t backed up so that (a) I won’t potentially lose them and (b) I will be sure to have the latest if I switch hosts, which is a strong possibility.