…and I suppose that we owe all of you – if anyone’s still reading – an explanation as to our whereabouts.  First off, this isn’t like that time we disappeared for more than a year.  Back then we had no Twitter accounts, and were essentially unreachable.  I assume that those of you who followed our blog back then figured that we’d run off and joined a commune or something.  This time, however, we’ve generally been active on Twitter, and were also reachable via email and Kik during our blogging hiatus.

Our blog went quiet in June.  Granted, we weren’t blogging much during the first six months of the year.  But in June we stopped blogging.  It was announced by Google that all adult blogs that were monetized – that is, for profit – would be deleted without warning.  The rumor was that Google was actually planning to delete all adult blogs, regardless of whether they were monetized.  Terrified by the prospect of losing five years of writing and erotic photography, we immediately exported this blog to WordPress.  We’d had a good run at Blogger, but no way in hell did we want to see our sexy legacy unceremoniously trashed.

Our new blog opened shortly thereafter.  We opted not to self-host, setting up a rudimentary home through WordPress itself until we had a chance to work out the logistics, financial and otherwise, of having our own domain.  Time was also an issue; we spent most of July traveling and were unable to focus properly on self-hosting.  However, shortly after our WordPress blog was up and running they announced that, like Blogger, they would also be shuttering non-self-hosted adult blogs.

Are you fucking kidding me?

We were about to embark on a cruise when this announcement was made.  With little choice, both of our blogs were quickly made invitation-only until we could return home and figure out what to do with them.  Sure, self-hosting is a popular option.  But we had published less than fifteen posts since the first of the year.  Was it really worth it to drop in upwards of a hundred bucks for a couple years of hosting for a blog we weren’t even sure if we still wanted?

We didn’t have time to address the situation before the end of our summer break, and by late August I had even stepped away from Twitter due to a number of obligations both foreseen and unforeseen.  Most elective activities took a backseat to real life, which was suddenly racing by at a breakneck pace.  With the number of things that required my immediate attention, blogging was unfortunately less than an afterthought.

One thing I did notice during this time was the vast number of adult blogs Google hadn’t deleted.  Many of our blogging friends remained at their original Blogger homes.  This made it clear to us that, at least for now, for-profit blogs were the only ones being deleted.  We’d received many requests for invitations, so a week ago we decided to make our blog public once again.  And here we are.

So welcome back, if you’re a returning reader.  If this is your first visit, thanks for stopping by.  We hope you enjoy what you find here.

– Jack