Thank you muchly, brotha. And thanks for being a friend through those trying times; I am fairly poor at expressing it, as this post will attest, but your support has always been appreciated.

Thank you! Yes, I feel a lot of the people who stick with blogging in the long term — assuming they're not doing it "professionally" — feel the same way.

I've always been one for the written word, since I was a young child and regularly wowed my teachers with lengthy stories. I used to make fanzines, too; I even still have copies of the only two issues of our sixth form magazine "Sixth Sense" and the only surviving copy of my gaming fanzine "Video Game Analyst" (VGA, how clever I thought I was back in 1999). They're part of my "history" and I'd hate to be without them 🙂

I have used blogging(since 2006) as a release. Ever since I produced print fanzines in the '90s I've need to put ideas/thoughts/daydreams down on 'paper'. I too find the written word a medium in which I can communicate in better than I can the spoken word.

Kudos to you!