March Or Die

[El Gordo]

Good message @sweder - much appreciated.

That slightly fractious exchange on Twitter the other night was a timely extension to some recent soul-searching on my part. I'll go into that in a new blog post, and hope that it doesn't join the 15 or so posts I've written in recent weeks that haven't made it to t'Internet.

RC started out nearly 10 years ago as some sort of writing project, but in recent times (as @sweder so robustly reminded us the other night) most of the contributions have come from him, as well as from MLCM and Dan and SW, who remind us that some people at least have remained true to the supposed purpose of the site.

(Hmm, but hang on -- what is the purpose of the site? That old chestnut has been rattling around my cranial cavity in recent days. Ironically,my recent life has been interesting and thought-provoking - to put it mildly - yet almost none of it is being recorded here.)

Many reasons for my relative coyness, but a particularly red-faced culprit is Twitter. It may have been taken by some as an April Fool, but my last Twitter message may be exactly that. I've realised it's taking up too much time and exhausting too much other stuff that could be better employed elsewhere.

On the running front, an update: a few days after the last post on the main site, I went for a plod and had (yawn) another attack of calf-itis, but this time in my right leg, instead of the left, as has been the case over the past 15 months. It was a major blow to my morale, and took a couple of weeks to work things through.

Long story short is that I need to get that corner turned some other way. This is all part of my musings.

In the meantime, let's cut @sweder some slack. His contribution here is unmatched, and let's tip our collective hat. If he needs to take some time out, or even to decamp completely, then so be it. It won't erode the man's amazing, stream-of-consciousness musings over the past several years. He was, is, and I'm sure will be (somewhere) a delight to read -- for many years to come.

More stuff from me soon. But before getting too bogged down in more navel-gazing from the bench, let's acknowledge and encourage Dan and SW in their climbs up the final crazy stages of the marathon mountain.

Andy