every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

Hi starling, it's been 1,461 days since you joined Xanga!

Yes, yes it has.  Four years and a day, as I write this.  About time to leave, I've decided.

I've been here long enough to watch this website go from something nice to something really good to something mildly irritating at times to something overrun with pre-teens who think they're cool with their lack of comprehensible language and their quest to become e-prop whores to something that isn't what I want anymore.

I've had enough of the bugs, and the downtime, and the lost comments and the drama and everything else.  Xanga and I are parting ways.  I will no longer be regularly posting here.

If there's only one good thing that's come from my time here, it would most certainly be the people that I've come to know  -- most notably Josh and the Monroeville crew, for they've beome part of my life's blood; I don't know what I'd do without them.  But every single one of you has come to mean something special to me, and I thank you for being my friends.

Rest assured, this isn't the last of me.  My online presence isn't gone; it just doesn't live here anymore.