Just Joshin’

Okay, so the title of this post is a lie.  I wasn’t just joshin’ (which always makes me think of when I went to see Tuck Everlasting with my friend and her cousin, and one of the characters says that and my friend’s cousin, who was quite a bit younger than us, thought it was the funniest thing ever and kept quoting it the rest of the night) when I said I wasn’t going to be blogging here anymore.  I really did mean it.  Honest, I did. 

No, this post is merely because I can never just let things lie and let the last word be the actual last word.  Rest assured, I will soon be out of your hair though…unless you wish to follow me to my new domain, in which case drop me a line or a comment or send up smoke signals or whatever. 

I just wanted to alert those of you who care that I am indeed setting up pages that link to some of my favorite posts from the time I blogged as Yankee from Mississippi.  The first of these, my posts from the Blogger years, is already available for your consumption.  I will do another for my Typepad posts, and a third for those since joining WordPress.  I broke them down that way not for any thematic reason, but just because I thought it might be too much for one page.  I may or may not update this particular post with links to those new pages as they are completed, but if I don’t, well, just look at the top where the page links are and you should see it.  I also never finished my 100 Things.  Guess that just makes me an incomplete person. 

I can hardly say “the rest is silence” again (though, I am pretty proud of myself for managing to quote the Doors and the Bard in the same post), so I think I’ll “borrow” from favorite poet, T.S. Eliot (with my sincerest apologies to Tom for the hackery - it’s really a very good poem):

This is the way the blog ends
This is the way the blog ends
This is the way the blog ends
Not with a bang but a wimper.