No need to say goodbye to Magnum P.I., however. Cause that guy is STAYING.

For a while now, I've resisted the idea of redesigning the layout of the ol' blog. Mostly because of you guys. People don't like change. And a lot of you are really, really old...I don't want to be responsible for giving you a heart attack and thus losing one of my precious followers.

Plus...I mean, besides a couple of header changes and some additions to the sidebar, this blog has looked this way for *checking post archive* ALMOST SEVEN YEARS (holy crap). There's a bunch of nostalgia wrapped up in that thar black background. Metal. The Darkness. Dungeons & Dragons. Dating horror stories. A bunch of writing series about boys. Living in Wisconsin and then moving and living in Wisconsin again.

But it hit me this past week that I can't stand the way the blog looks anymore. CANNOT. STAND. IT. It's like standing in the middle of a stuffed closet and consistently resisting the urge to grab armfuls of clothing and throw everything out.

So we're going to play around with it for the next couple of weeks. I might even ask for your input on which layout/design you like better (even though, as with everything, if I like it, I don't really care what you think). I did flirt with the idea of funneling this blog over to Wordpress or something similar, but at the end of the day, I'm a creature of habit, and even when I'm writing blog posts for this site, I still draft them over here first because the writing and tone feels different when I use something else (that's called being weird, and I'll totally own it). So we're sticking with the old Blogger.

So it's happening. I'm kind of sad. I don't like change all that much either. But we have to do it, friends. Let's hold hands and walk into that big, beautiful, bright future together. Just promise me you won't leave me if things get weird. We've been together for 7 years. That's longer than most Hollywood marriages. I stick by you, you stick by me. THAT'S HOW THIS WORKS.

We live in the future.