So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, goodbye...

I know, I know... I abandoned you all.  Flitted off without notice to competing websites while you sat beside a cooling pot roast, a solitary candle burning down to a nub as you silently rued the day you met me.  For that I'm sorry.  Still, it's not as if anything I ever wrote here ever rose above the level of mediocre dreck, and the blogosphere has grown far too competitive in recent years for my old aching bones to handle.  I'll leave this blogging business to the energetic young bucks and indestructible old hands.  Five years is enough, I think.  Besides, now blogging is cool it just ain't cool, if you know what I mean.

Anyway... I suppose I'll leave one final post before signing off for a final time and letting the old Sortapundit become, finally, a purely commercial venture - sponsored links and all.

2006 has been a fairly interesting year, to be honest.  After a quarter century in the making I finally achieved my goal of becoming a professional writer, and my secondary goal of not working very much.  As it happens, there are a lot of people willing to pay me quite respectable sums of money in exchange for my limited talents with the English language.  As a result, I haven't worked a full day since late October and yet I've earned much more than I used to make when I had to work at a real job.  Can't complain.

I went to New York. It's been on the list for many years, but only now did I have the resources and opportunity to do it.  Fortunately, it was everything I'd imagined and much, much more.  While I'm not a fan of cities I can make an exception for the Big Apple.  The first guy who works out how to take the sense of vitality and dynamism that suffuses that place and bottle it will be a wealthy man. 

Anyway, I'm tired and I need to take a bath before heading out to see my brother.  I'll sign off with this.  I offer a sincere thank you to everyone who stumbled across this place and the blog I ran before it.  I've enjoyed every moment of it: from the days when it was just me and 4 or 5 lost browsers to the days when ten thousand readers decided to drop by.  Writing this here blog gave me the confidence in my writing to pursue it as a career, and without the experience I'd still be stuck in an office job.  I wouldn't take the mawkishness so far as to say it changed my life, but I can't imagine I'd have the job I have today without Sortapundit.

Right.  Time to get drunk.  Merry Christmas, folks, and I wish you all a very happy new year.  LOL, ROFL, WTF, etc. etc. etc...

 

Comments

[Digger]

So where can we find your banterish rantings now? Or are you writing dull and drab math textbooks?

[sortapundit]

The occasional penis enlargement website, too :( Still, they're quite lucrative jobs. I'll probably post every so often at my myspace page. Turns out you don't have to be a 13 year old girl to have a page there :)