Foo. Enjoy your time off, but come back soon, Mr. B.

If there's one thing I've learned from blogging, it is that one should never blog when one could be eating pr0k instead.

bon appetit.

I took great pleasure from that particular post, and thusly all your hard work scanning the pictures =) Keep posting retro scans, and they will come!!!

pr0k, yes indeed ^^

And if there's one thing I *should've* learned from blogging, it's never to post when I'm tired and grumpy, Herr Christmas Frog.

Thanks for the comments, all. I think I still need to take a break though.

I don't know how on earth I missed that great post of yours. Great work!
And great looking food! Oh, I'm going to test this
(http://reality.sgiweb.org/mattm/balihai/Vics/page5.html) at a party I'm having in three weeks. Doesn't look too hard. And I love Wasabi!

Have a nice (and short) break.

Thanks!

Good luck on your Bloggattical. Time off from the rigors of Blogging might open new vistas of insight and in the end leave you "minty fresh"

MR.B! seems to me things have been rough all over of late. lots of us throwing up our hands, getting grumpy, asking what it's all about. can't help but think we are experiencing the form's growing pains from the inside, experiencing evolution as it were. maybe the blogosphere needs some officially recognized holidays in the calender. days to just shut the whole network down, guilt free, for the lot of us... anyhow, you know we all love e.o.t.g... for whatever that's worth.

Jim, thanks.

Blogging has been very frustrating for me at times, and the rewards are intangible, to say the least. As the title of this post suggests, sometimes all the hard work I put into it just doesn't seem to pay off.

I wholeheartedly support "taking a break." I look forward to reading your posts again. Does this mean you're not reading LJ posts by other people either - because if so, you might want to check my most recent post out. Subject: "Ron Clandestino."

I've been sick...

Don't worry, MrBH. Me, I treat this web stuff as something I do for the heck of it. Maybe it finds an audience, maybe not.

You should stick with your Vic project. Static pages have a way of building an audience. When I first posted my Highway Hi-Fi piece in 1997, it received very little traffic. Now it averages around 50 hits a day. They take time to lodge into the link-osphere, which is not really the same thing as the blog-osphere.

But when you're not having fun with it, it's time for a holiday. Just come on back, soon.

stop whining, one of those 20 could be G.WBush who knows,, ( seriously doubt that but okay), i looked at it , it pleased me , you are here to please us.so be it.

stop whining

It's my 'blog and I'll whine if I want to
Whine if I want to
Whine if I want to
You would whine too if it happened to you

And Bite me.

Back during my days of heavy blogging, I would sometimes spend large amounts of times painstakingly crafting a blog entry and then ... not a single comment. Then, I dash something off in a minute and a half, and oodles of comments. (But, also, more spicy ham product, too.) Don't blog for others; blog for yourself. And take a rest ...

I do blog for myself, Jim. I just have to stop expecting everyone else to dig my stuff as much as I do!

And apparently my whinging worked because the cookbook's up over 200 hits now.

Happy Easter/Passover/Whatevah!

Bloggees sense whinging like horses smell fear.

I think instead of taking a break you should
put a pistol to the head of the Goof .....Cleavon Little style... until the comments roll in. Just a thought. Comment or the Goof gets it..

You mean like this?

Take a well deserved break, MrBaliHai. We'll be here when you come back.

I know the feeling...

Yes just like that Mr. B