Well, that has been an ordeal... ever felt like you were being "muzzled"?  I have.

This is just a quick post to let you know that Xanga has made it more difficult for me to access it and my account on a day to day basis. I can't even access the login page except by some workarounds so I seldom have convenient means to come back here because of the added difficulty.

I have done my own investigations and working with internet experts and the story is simple. Xanga has locked out my ISP for some reason. No one else is blocking my ISP from what can be discerned. Given that my ISP is my best means to get to the internet, Xanga loses. That also means that I'm not the only one affected but everyone that uses the same ISP as I do. Sounds like pretty poor business practices or someone in Xanga's IT department has issues or something but who can tell and I digress. I still get your posts by email. Thankfully that is not blocked. So if you have sent me messages and I have not responded, you now know what was has been going on.

Do I want to get it fixed? Probably not at this point. While I have been quite busy since my last post (Thanksgiving 2009!), I've been forced to find better ways to connect and I've pretty much moved on at least as far as my means to post and communicate.

I'll hang around a bit longer to stay in touch but I don't expect things to change much as far as connectivity since I'm not the one in control of that. What I've learned from this is that, going forward, I'll have better control over my access to means to post and communicate with those who share common interests than what's happened here in a year or two.

Take care and may the Lord watch over you and keep you in the palm of His hand as you walk in His way... Mr. Vee