So, I continue in my attempt at reviving the Wicca and Paganism Section of the website by posting a second essay today -- one on Ritual, Symbolism and Magick. The focus of this essay is slightly less autobiographical than the first essay in the section, but still has a personal slant... because, to me, it's all personal.

I have several other essays planned for that section that I plan on doing over the next few weeks, and I hope that I can at least keep them mostly entertaining. If you guys have any feedback, it's appreciated. I should also mention that if anyone else would like to contribute an essay to that section, I would be more than happy to put it online. A voice other than mine might be appreciated.

I honestly don't know how most of my readers feel about the Wicca essays that I'm posting. I know a couple of you seem interested, but the rest of you... I have this feeling that I'm just generating a blank look when I go on about this stuff.

And that's okay. Not everything I do has to be of interest to everyone here, and maybe this will help expand the site's horizons. Who knows.

I'm right now going on a slight attempt to revamp the navigation on TRHOnline so it is less complicated for new users. The site has grown so much though, that I may have to rethink the entire structure. The good news is that the current backend should allow me to take things in quite a few directions. The only problem with doing stuff like this is that I am so naturally resistant to change that it takes me forever to say I'm abandoning a design choice I made years ago. In the end, usability needs to prevail though.

And I'm going to make it work.

As I was preoccupied by being creeped out by the hair fetishists, I barely mentioned yesterday that I decided to quit caffeine. That's right, I've gone cold turkey as of Monday... and my head is killing me.

From the tiny amount of research I've done (i.e. I read the Wikipedia article on Caffeine) the entire process can take 3-8 days for my body to recover. The near constant headache though is seriously driving me nuts. In the past, I managed to break the chemical addiction (although not the psychological one... hence my picking it up again later), and I know that by next week I will feel like myself again (only without having to spend so much on caffeine) but until then I'm in a bit of a daze.

Geh.

On the upside, from everything I'm told, this will pass. I just have to be patient.