I actually totally forgot about Xanga for a week. Totally. But I am not sorry. There is practically no one left to apologize to.

Another change: Xanga appears to have severed its connection with Quantcast.com. With Quantcast you could track actual daily visitors. Fewer and fewer, day by day. But Xanga has now blinded us from even this insight. They either "unsubscribed" or the subscription ran out and wasn't renewed or they went "private" so the public can no longer see their traffic trends. Quantcast was Xanga's cardiac monitor, and ever since Xanga 2.0, the monitor had been near "flat-lining". Perhaps this signifies an imminent passage: Flat-line. Shrill alarm. The monitor has been turned off.

Listen. What is the sound of one blogger blogging? "x-a-n-g-a" !

The government has shut down. Does this mean I don't have to send the IRS a check for my past taxes? I want a tax refund!

Thank you all, out there -afar- somewhere, for the wonderful blogging engagement I've enjoyed for the past 13 years here. Ah! Dios!

(not to be in any manner confused with "Adios.")