...and I'll resist the urge to start quoting Huey Lewis lyrics at you. No, don't thank me, just send money.

It's been an arduous hegira. See, first I figured, well, SuperGirlfriend's computer is better than mine and we just got DSL hooked up, so now I can get one of those neat looking template-powered blogs over at blogspot, just like all the cool kids have. So I went trudging over there and did indeed set such a blog up (you can find it at miserableannals.blogspot.com, if you've a mind to, but it's just going to sit there and fester now, so there's little point). However, as I continued to play with it, I discovered that (a) the built in comments at blogspot won't let you edit them unless you become a paying customer, and I say PUH-tooie to that, and (b) blogspot won't let me post my Squawkbox comment threads, which I am paying for, and which I therefore can edit, and I say PUH-tooie to that, too.

See, I need to be able to edit my comments, because I have emmenies. Yes I do. I mean, pretty much all 8 of you folks who read the Miserable Annals blog have been pretty cool, but you never know when one of the Portal of Evil retards is going to stumble onto this thing and decide to urinate in one of the comment threads. Plus you never know when someone from some Smallville comment thread might show up here and start whining about how I have textual diarrhea or some such nonsense and I'll have to slap them down, too. I mean, I'm a big believer in freedom of expression when we're talking about MY freedom of expression in other people's comment threads, but I need, require, and resolutely demand absolute control over anything anyone says in MY damn comment threads.

So I was hatin' on blogspot, and after wasting several hours over there trying to unscrew the inscrutable, I decided I'd just look elsewhere.

Now, I've known for a while that Angelfire actually has a blog building area, but I'd haughtily ignored it, as is my wont, mostly because the computer I've been using for the last four years has something like .003 megs of RAM in it and if I try to run any graphics program written after the fall of the Roman Empire on it, it just cries. However, once blogspot crapped out on me, I figured I might as well check out Angelfire, and, well, no, they won't let me use my SquawkBox comment threads either (at least, when I try to put the link in the comments window I can't get it to show up on the blog page itself, which maddens me) but they DO allow non-subscribers to edit their comment threads, which is pretty cool. So here I am.

I'm really not wild about doing a blog where I have to type stuff into a somewhat preformatted window, for the good and simple reason that, well, I can't put in some of the formatting I've painstakingly learned how to do, and I just find that aggravating. I'm sure there must be SOME way to put my Squawkbox link in, and I'd really prefer to, but I can't figure out how right now, so, I guess I'll let it go and just be happy to have a nicer looking blog that is rather easier to work with than the previous page. The website giveth and the website taketh away, I suppose.

Of course, now one of you fine folks who use blogspot will tell me there IS a way to edit blogspot's built in comment threads, and I'll just bang my head against the wall for a while.