Is This Thing On?

Okay, so I’m testing out the old blog. You have to admit that it’s been gone for a long, long time. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, huh? Well, I’m back. Sort of. I’m here, anyway. I never really went anywhere, but you didn’t know that because you didn’t know where to find me.
I assume there’s someone out there who cares. At one point my blog got about 450 unique visits a day (meaning they weren’t all by the same person). That dropped off to around 200 a day eventually, and kind of hovered there as I worked through some of my issues. A grumpy bass player living in Saint Petersburg, Florida, does not make for exciting prose.
Anyway, there’s no particular reason for this post. I have nothing important that I’ve been dying to say. I’m posting because I can. This is a kind of therapy for me, and I’m indulging myself. But the one thing I learned during my virtual exile in the wilderness was that I didn’t miss this blog at all. I didn’t miss jotting down every random thought. Moreover, I didn’t mind that no one seemed to notice that I was gone. It put things in perspective for me. And while I’m still addicted enough to this endeavor to put the blog back online as soon as I had the chance, the thrill is definitely gone.
We’ll see.