I'm glad that I tend to be slow about changing the blogroll.

Turns out that Bess (Like the Queen) did not intend to quit blogging; a glitch ate her blog and blog access. And now it's back!  I'm happy to see that.

(I tend to prefer - and I know this is a little selfish, but whatever, I also think it's kind of etiquette - that if someone is going to give up blogging, they put up one last post saying that their life has gotten too busy, or that they've burned out on blogging, or that they are writing a book instead, or whatever. You know, so we KNOW. So many of the blogs I used to read just tapered off...the last post being in 2007 or some time. I know that a lot of people probably intended to go back to the blog and never did. But it makes a person wonder (and sometimes worry) when a blog goes silent unexpectedly. I suspect as the blogging/Twitter/whatever phenomenon continues, and more people who were involved on it pass on - well, there will need to be some way of determining and memorializing. I know a few blogs where the blogger died, a family member goes in and writes a last memorial post.)

I can promise you, if I were to ever to decide to give up the blog (NO PLANS to do that at the moment), I will have a "farewell" post. I wouldn't want to leave people hanging.