Once randomness was full of glee. A pithy new comment here, a tawdry observation there. The blog world was new and lustrous. Soon randomness was making friends. Old chums visited, new ones dropped in, links were tossed about like stock options in the dot-com heyday.

But all too soon randomness fizzled just a bit. Call it the proverbial sophomore slump. Insight didn't come as quickly as it once had. The hubbub became a faint hiss. But patience is a virtue the electronic world can't afford to possess and many felt it time to move on. Sure, the tried and true stuck around in hopes that scraps would flow from time-to-time. Some new pals were still around, too. They were certainly appreciated and they noticed when the frenzy picked up just a bit.

However, randomness found a world that hadn't waited. Looking about, randomness found that so many new friends had disappeared and, in many cases, taken down any reference to the glorious past. This made randomness very sad indeed. But randomness vowed to fight on in hopes that one day, one glorious day, the magic can be recaptured in a jar like so many lightening bugs.

So poke some holes in the lid. I'm going to need to breathe.