posted October 11, 2011 02:19 PM            

I have stopped coming here. I'm not even lurking (else I might have said something on the Gypsee thread, which is a bit of a breach of her privacy if you ask me-- unless she asked someone to say something here).

I'm not here for multiple reasons, which [remarkably] aren't limited to the quality of the site now that so many great people have left. My Facebook usage has gone down, too, as some of you have noticed. It's just a circumstance of this time of my life.

But I did set out not to come here for awhile. Anything a person does regularly has the potential for being labelled an addiction, and either I had to see how strong the addiction was, or alternately I wanted the knowledge that I am still stronger than any addiction I give myself. It turns out it was rather easy to quit, so I guess that experiment is over now. I still don't plan on contributing, but I don't mind visiting.