a little less political

To my approximately seven readers:

It's no surprise to those of you who have me on GChat that I haven't posted anything here for the last month. But for those of you who don't, the news is that I have been taking a hiatus from this blog as I began a new career position within a government agency, and have been taking time to learn about the limitations on the sort of acceptable blogging. There are, I believe, very important and necessary ethical guidelines established by law on political activity of career government employees, and I definitely plan to follow them both in spirit and in letter.

So after allowing for some time to percolate on these rules, and the past/present/future of my blogging interests, I've come to the realization that this is a good moment to transition away from primarily political blogging. That there are certain limitations required by my new job that would require some self-censoring, especially of rants, is certainly a major reason for breaking from this thread of writing. And there are a lot of other reasons I thought of as well, from my inability to dedicate the amount of time and brain matter necessary to be a decent political blogger to my new, relatively long daily commute to work and back.

But most of all, I've had other ideas and other things that I've wanted to write, and draw, and maybe sing, and all of those other things would likely work in a different format. A prettier format, with lots of colors and pictures and a lot more things that are happy and forward-looking, and less faux-op/ed voice and more of my voice. More like my first posts on this blog were, back in May of 2004, when the name of the blog was less serious, and the blog was less serious, and in so many ways better and more fun to write.

So over six years and more than 800 posts later, I'm saying goodbye to hsuperpolitical. Unlike professional bloggers, this will not be a smooth and seamless transition; there is no definite timeline for when my new random side project will be up and running. So if you don't mind having an inactive feed in you RSS, stay tuned to this channel; I'll post an announcement here once I've gotten the new act together.

Thanks all who have read and commented. The next one is going to be even better.

-hsuper