The hell is going on in the comments?

2011 blew. However, it’s 2012 now, and I figure it can only get better from here. Or the world will end. Either way, I probably won’t make it to 2013 too much worse for the wear.

Interestingly, 2011 seemed to blow across the board. From my highly scientific sampling of Facebook statuses and various tweets, the ratio of people who enjoyed 2011 to those who disliked it was vastly skewed in favor of the latter. Even more interestingly, the people who thought 2011 sucked included many of my generally optimistic/happy-go-lucky/even Pollyannaesque friends.

Anyway, sorry for being Debbie Downer. I think I’m going to try to do a little more regular blogging. My heart hasn’t been in it lately, but I’m going to try the fake-it-’til-I-make-it approach and see if I can’t reignite the fire.

I’m unsure of the future of PGB. I have come to despise politics at all levels. I am a much happier, more productive person when I’m not constantly gnashing my teeth over an irreparably broken system.

It’s nothing y’all don’t already know: Shit is going to hit the fan. Sorry, Mr. Franklin, we couldn’t keep the Republic. To be honest, I’m not really upset or fatalistic about this. I’m just always preparing, wishing/looking/ready for the Gulch, wondering what the next proper step is, hoping we get it right next time around. I know a lot of good folks and am confident me and mine will be just fine. If you’re here, reading this, chances are our interests overlap enough that you’re going to be okay, too. Humanity is going to move onward and upward, but I really don’t think the United States–as we know it now, anyway–is going along with it. I’m okay with this. I just have better things to invest my time in, these days, than doomed politics. I threw ‘em on the GROUND!

S’anyway, the P in PGB is kinda defunct, and then there’s that whole paleo/clean eating thing eliminating the B, as well. I’ll confess: I don’t have any problem giving up beer in the nine(ish) months of crappier weather. Beer is a summer vice. I’m hoping my present iteration of paleo/health/fitness will have taken hold well enough over this coming winter/spring that I’ll be able to hold off next summer’s beer cravings. (Or, at least hold myself to a sorghum beer or two–they don’t seem to wreck my world like gluten-based beers do. So sad.)

I’ve joked before that I oughta change the title to Aviation, Guns and Whiskey (the guns aren’t going anywhere, duh), but I’m not even sure that’s proper. To be honest, I didn’t intend for this to be a gun blog, and I never truly counted myself amongst the ranks of gun bloggers. They, good folk all, tend to be much more dedicated, focused, and on-point than I’ve ever been. However, since most of you wound up here via gun stuff, I went more in that direction because I wanted to cater to the audience I’ve found. As a result, I’ve skipped posting a lot of the little daily-life vignettes that make it to my FaceBook, ’cause all the funny-shit-my-kid/husband/roommate-says seems a bit out-of-place. I mean, I get that it’s my blog and I can post whatever the F I wanna post, but… I dunno. Like I said, different direction.

So, it’s certainly not a lack of appreciation for my readers, nor an utter lack of things to write about. I just renewed the domain for another year, too, so I’m not shutting down, or anything. I just don’t often find the stuff I’m up to worthy of or appropriate to be posting here. Maybe a new blog is in the works? Maybe I think too much?

Me: “Oh… Wait, which Bill?”

Customer: “He said to tell you, ‘The family that shoots together… has intersecting fields of fire.’”

Me: “Ooooh, THAT Bill!”

Hi, Bill. :)

The good news is the RSS feed is validating properly with ID. The bad news is I’m back to having all the white space between my post and the comments. I did notice the comments are appearing directly below the level of my left sidebar, so the error has to have something to do with that. It may be a while before I fix it, or maybe I’ll just get mad and change my layout completely. I checked my markup validation as-is, and… ick. Bad.

Changed my layout. Everything validates properly, now, and Intense Debate seems tolerable. As I said in the comments, I am not emotionally invested in using ID, so if anyone has a simpler alternative, I’m all ears. It’s just that I have an extreme preference for threaded comments, and I want something that threads and works.

Also: Does anyone else have to scroll down like a mile to get to the comments? I think it’s a Firefox bug, but I haven’t figured out how to fix it yet.

I THINK I fixed it, though I’m not sure what I did was the proper way to do it. Lemme know if I broke the internet.

Robb has a post here if you’re out of the loop, like I was until just now.

Sorry for the sparse posting lately, guys. I’ve been spending hardly any time in the blogosphere, including on my own.

P.S. I should mention that I’ve had three transactions with GPal (two receiving, one sending), and they were all smooth. However, they were also months ago, which was before the current trouble they’re having.

EDIT: Hmm. Here’s another post on the saga. I really don’t know what to think. There’s a big difference between screwing up and screwing up and trying to cover it up/pass the buck. Shit happens, but the latter behavior speaks to character. They’re going to have to do some serious damage control to earn back my trust after reading all these experiences.

The search strings are my favorite part. Today, the winner was the person who found me by Googling, and I do quote,

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Haaahaha. Comrade, I hope you found what you were looking for!