THE SNAKE IS BACK --- by Steve Nadis
Call Me Snake took a break. We were shut down over the weekend for mysterious reasons. "Bandwidth Exceeded" was the message people got when they went to the site. (I know for a fact that at least one person, apart from myself, actually went to the site.) That made for boring reading and I'm sure my "hit count" dropped off over that two-to-three-day period. MarkoPolo suggested that I had pissed off the wrong people who had sabotaged my site, perhaps relating to the series of stories I recently deleted or maybe even antagonized someone in the government (sorry, did I say "torture?"). The explanation turned out to be far more mundane: I had, until now, a free subscription with blog.com and they decided the free ride was over; they wouldn't activate my site until I coughed up some dough. "Bandwidth exceeded," I guess means that I was getting too long-winded for a freebie member. I don't normally give in to extortion (nor do I, as a general rule, negotiate with terrorists), but I decided to pay off, at least for now.
I had wondered whether I should use this interruption as a chance to get out from this blogging thing, but then I concluded I should make the decision myself, rather than have others make it for me. So I'm back in business. And now that I've paid the man, I can be as long-winded as I want. Expect some wordy posts for awhile, until I regain my award-winning gutter journalism stride.
