So long?

Whew.

For a blog that's supposed to be dead, I sure have been fiddling quite a bit on it today. In fact, I fiddled with it so much that I came dangerously close to losing all that I hold dear.

More on that later.

The more pressing question is why am I back from the "dead"--Tom Sawyer style--at all. Surely there were enough indications that this blog was finished--the sentimental montage; the funeral pyre; the cryptic, yet telling, title of my "final" post.

But really, I never had any intention of stopping You Never Can Tell with Bees (ok, maybe I did for a day or so).

All that stuff about the blog ending was for dramatic effect. Originally I had planned to take about a week off and let everyone assume I was serious about quitting, and then, when I was good and ready, I would (cue fanfare) make my glorious return to the world of blogging.

But as I thought about it, I realized that the return might not be all that glorious.

After all, if I repeatedly indicated that my blog was finished, and then didn't post on it for a week, what's to keep all of you cherished readers from coming back?

Nothing, that's what.

(Well, except for that wonderful picture of Lazar Wolf, but I'm sure all of you have downloaded that by now as your new favorite wallpaper.)

So I took the coward's way out and decided to post again real quick like lest I lose even one of you to a lesser blog.

(I was really tempted to link "lesser blog," but You Never Can Tell with Bees does not start flame wars--though it will finish them. If you really want to, I'm sure you can find one on your own. They're everywhere.)

Anyway, so much for drama.

So never fear, faithful readers, if I haven't posted for a few days, it doesn't mean You Never Can Tell with Bees is finished. It probably just means I took a few days off to do something important.

Unless I just arbitrarily quit someday, which is probably just as likely.

(Man, that would've made a pretty good Last Line, but I just remembered that I promised to tell you about all the "fiddling" I did, and how I almost completely screwed up my blog. But I'll have to get to that another time. This post is already getting too long, and today I learned in blog school that long posts are for suckers.)