h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Many of the people I've enjoyed hanging around with on h2g2 have left the site, over recent months... most drifting quietly away, others departing rather more acrimoniously, in protest at this or that perceived injustice or tightening up of the h2g2 House Rules. I'm still not too sure how much I like the post-Beeb restrictions myself, even now after nine months or so of them... or, rather, I'm not sure whether or not I *dislike* them sufficiently to make me feel that staying around here really is a waste of time.

For the moment I'm hovering about on the virtual margins, as is my usual wont, lurking-reading-thinking and occasionally even posting something. I haven't quite got the decisive edge that would lead me out the door once and for all... besides, I quite like it here again at the moment, or more than I have done for a while at any rate. Not quite sure why, to be honest. Maybe it's just a sign that there's not enough going on in Real Life for me at the moment... and I keep drifting back to h2g2 because I can't think of anything more inspiring to do.

If that's the case, it's not really much of a reason for being here, frankly, and it maybe stands as evidence that something else needs to change. In truth, I have been feeling a little directionless lately - in RL, I mean - drifting through the same old routines without really seeming to achieve much of note. It hasn't been a very fruitful year, all things considered. If I were a Tarot card - and, no, I'm definitely *not* into astrology - I'd probably be the Hanged Man right now... which is better than being Death, I suppose, but anyway methinks it may be time to reinvent myself a little, come the New Year.

There's a New Year's Resolution already, then. Not so much 'Try to stay away from h2g2' as 'Try to find other things to fill the spaces that I too-frequently fill with visits to here'. And try to aim my nicely crafted little articles at outlets where people actually bloodywell *read* the things you've written...

Anyway, surfing h2g2 still beats watching televised football matches, which would be something like the absolute nadir...