FYI

I don't keep a blogroll on this site, because we didn't know about other weight loss/fitness blogs at the time we created it and paid for the design. There was no place on the sidebar to put a blogroll, and I'm too stupid not possessed of the patience required to figure out how to create another heading in the same font, size, style, etc. I could create another sidebar section that didn't match the others, but it would drive my inner perfectionist CRAZY.

However, until a couple weeks ago I did have a blogroll for this site registered with blogrolling. It contained about 30-40 fitness blogs, and I would use their IE sidebar code to catch up on my reading. And anyone who checked their site stats could see who I was by following the blogrolling link.

Around the beginning of this month, my blogrolling gold subscription expired, and I decided not to renew it. Since AWSI doesn't exist anymore and it was the only blog I was maintaining a public blogroll for, it wasn't worth $20/year for me. Besides which, the service has gone downhill since it was sold to TuCows.

In my true dunderheaded fashion, I neglected to move all my links to somewhere else before my subscription ran out, so now I can't get to my secondary blogrolls to get the URLs even. I've contacted blogrolling about it, but they're happily ignoring me. Not that I blame them...if someone wrote me and said basically, "hey, I've decided not to pay for your service anymore, but could you open up my blogroll for a day so I can move over to your competition?", I wouldn't be too keen to respond either. :)

Why do you care? Probably you don't. But I just wanted to mention it, because I do still visit all the blogs on my workout diaries 'roll whose URLs I could remember. I know I missed some, so if you have a complicated URL and I used to visit you regularly, please drop a comment and let me know what it is. Your URL, that is.

And if you have a simple URL but haven't been seeing my blogrolling link in your site stats as often lately, it's not that I haven't been visiting. It's that I'm too cheap to renew my blogrolling subscription.