Democratic Veteran is changing homes on or around my "blogiversary"...I have been thinking of leaving Blogger for some time, but when the template problems started, the pages would not reload, and the assorted other problems started to show up it got to be too much. And the traffic issues also bothered me, over the last 7 to 10 days my page has seldom-to-never loaded up. At exactly the same time, my traffic numbers dropped over 60%, coincidence? I have had to hit reload numerous times to get to my faves, even the mighty Atrios is not immune. So, I got a new hosting company, after some research, got Moveable Type, and am headed off into the sunrise sometime after the middle of June. My new url will be unsndemvet.com, and we'll have all the stuff we need!!! I'll be leaving a link after moving, since my blogger contract has a couple of more months to go. BTW, if you are thinking of moving, I'll be happy to share my thoughts on my new hosting company in the email world..my bill for year of hosting is exactly what blogspot*plus cost, $55/year and I have much more control and a 99% uptime guarantee.