Reader Tribulation

So, there's some blogs I read.   I used to think they were awesome.  Or something.   For whatever reason, awesome or not, I subscribed to them in Google Reader.  I've since decided they are un-awesome.  Or, at the very least, irrelevant and gumming up the grease in the quest for simplifying my life.  (QUEST, I tell you!)  So, like a good Simplification-Questerian, I went to my little "manage subscriptions" button in Reader and I unsubscribed to several previously-important blogs. 

I'll have you know, taking that step relaxed my mentally faculties. I refreshed my little Reader page and discovered less to read.  Less is more, don't you know?

A week or so went by and I experienced blissful simplicity via Google Reader. 

Until.

Google Reader began thinking for itself.  We might be dealing with some sort of A.I. here, folks. 

Right there, in my Reader feed, were those blogs that had fallen through the cracks of pertinence.  Those blogs I had eliminated from my brain-clutter had returned.  Why?  I don't know. 

So, I repeated the process.  Unsubscribe.  No thanks, lovely blogs. 

Again, I went on my merry, on-the-path-to-the-simple-life way. 

A week-ish passed again... log in to Reader...

THEY'RE BA-A-A-A-A-CK!!!! 

Seriously? 

Seriously.

I have now gone through this process three times.  And tonight, once again, the blogs are back. 

DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND, READER!!!?????  

Just let me be, blogs.  Get thee hence.   Please!? 

I am mystified.

Tue Pose a Question

Here's my question...

How many of you who read my blog use Google Reader? If you don't, you should. It's the coolest. And iGoogle is the icing on the cake. (oh how I wish Google paid me a dollar for everytime I said that!)

Here's the point to this question. If you use Google Reader and you notice that I have updated my blog with yet another wordy post, you might want to go straight to my blog and read the post there. I, often... VERY often, in fact almost every time I post... edit the post after I've read it on my actual blog. I have proof-reading and editing OCD. I obsess over this A LOT and so I often do one if not several edits once it's posted. (I edit it at least triple that amount BEFORE I post it too...) I have noticed that Google Reader takes the first post and doesn't update for editing freaks like me. So... if you want the finished product of my verbosity, go straight to the blog, baby!

The End.