Well, if you’ve been asking yourself, “What’s with all the animé? Where did the politics go on Houblog?” you seriously need to stop asking yourself questions that should have been addressed to me. I had started a long drawn-out explanation-by-way-of-apology, but frankly, who wants to read all that crap?

Here’s the short version: I’m stressing out due to real-life issues. Work, home, illness, etc. Serious posting takes a serious mindset, and the more stressed I have gotten, the more I’ve run away from being serious. Animé has been my big escape, to the point that it’s started dominating Houblog, which was never my intent. And in the last week or two, the stress has doubled and then some; to the point that I’ve been nearly incapacitated.

The only thing I can do is scale back my optional committments, and pretty much, that means blogging. I’ve already let the crew over at blogHOUSTON know that I’m taking some time off from posting there, and now I’m filling in my readers (both of those remaining!) that I’m doing the same here. About a month, which is what I think should be necessary for the non-optional things to settle down. I hope, anyway.

I’m not abandoning Houblog, or blogging in general. While I won’t be posting, I’m still going to be commenting over at bH, and on a few animé sites as well. I’m also going to be working behind the scenes here to do something I’ve been mulling over for some time: I’m going to split Houblog in two. Animé and politics just don’t mix that well, and I’m going to move the first to a new site, which I plan to be a subdomain of Houblog, just for the sake of simplicity (and cost, since I’ve yet to make a dime off any blegging here.) That way, when I take off on a run of posts about either local politics (and there’s so much going on there!) or animé, the other audience needn’t groan and wonder why they clicked on my link today.

So, although I might get bored and post a comment here, in all likelihood, you won’t see regular posting from me until sometime in October. Everyone take care, and keep the fires burning ’til I get back!