Meh.

So no one tells you that when you come home a bit late after a few glasses of wine and decide to change the wording - only the wording, mind - of the bit at the bottom of your blog posts that allows friends and strangers to show their approval by merely twitching their hand a fraction of an inch and applying an infinitesimal unit of pressure with their index finger, thereby putting a virtual tick in a virtual box, which translates to me as genuine psychological payment for the work I put in on these pages, NOT THAT I ONLY DO IT FOR YOU, but hey, I'd be lying if I said your praise and feedback were meaningless - so anyway, no one tells you that if you JUST CHANGE THE WORDING of that function, then it wipes all previous records of any box ticking, and you're back to zero on every single blog post since the dawn of time, with no visual sign of third party appreciation on any posts, and even if you change the wording back to how it was, the data is still lost forever and you're right back to being a loser with no boxes ticked at all, which is really quite annoying, even though only about, well, way less than one percent of the people who read this blog ever tick the boxes, which means there are either a lot of people who visit the site, read the blogs, enjoy them and then skulk off without ticking, which I think exhibits a level of laziness at which even I would balk, or there are a lot of people who do not enjoy the blogs but yet still read them, which displays a degree of stupidity and a lack of judgment that, well, I find depressing. It's not a flattering stat, but it must be true: most of you are either lazy or stupid.

Prove me wrong. Tick the damn box. Not this one in particular, but all the ones you've enjoyed over the past four years. Maybe a total change of mentality is needed. Here are your instructions: basically, tick the box unless you thought it was absolute rubbish, unless you finished it weeping with relief that it was over, unless it was the text equivalent of ocular rape. Don't view the tick as a treat. A treat would be a comment. The tick is just to say, 'Yup, read it. Well done for trying.' If you want to say something more meaningful, then comment. If you don't know what all the fuss is about, check out other people's blogs (there's a list down to the right if you need help). They're bloody littered with comments. Some of the blogs out there are so self-indulgent and miserable, they make LLFF look like... what's the opposite of self-indulgent and miserable...? Open-minded and chipper? They make LLFF look like... a Montessori teacher? But still, these people are inundated with supportive comments. I pour my heart out to you, I lay myself BARE and what do I get? Three ticks if I'm lucky. WHICH HAVE NOW BEEN DELETED. By me.

I'm so tired. Must go to bed. Anyway. I'd love to be so self-sufficient that I didn't care whether anyone was reading, but I'm not. Tick the mofoing boxes or I'll stop writing. Well, I won't. But I'll start only writing about politics. That'd learn you.