{"id":9959,"date":"2026-09-08T23:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2026-09-08T23:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:54:03","slug":"9959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/9959\/","title":{"rendered":"Sayonara!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Greetings and Salutations Frens&#8230;<br>Whelp&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr. Strangelove - Ending\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s4VlruVG81w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose it was inevitable.<br><br><em><strong>&lt;SOMEONE><\/strong><\/em> reported Gretchen and Myself to CPS for abusing the Dooney. They&#8217;ll be here in the AM&#8230;<br><br>It&#8217;s <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">total bullshit<\/span><\/strong> of course.<br>HOWEVER<br>One cannot ignore &#8216;Imperial Entanglements&#8217;&#8230;<br><br>I&#8217;ve been around this here bleg-o-sphere for quite a spell, and had a LOT of good times and bad with y&#8217;all watching me go at it.<br><br>I started my blogging back in September of 2008, September 11th of all dates&#8230; the site there is <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.blogspot.com\/<\/a><br>&#8230;and has some of my oldest and best writing IMO (mostly due to it being me, pre-TBIs and subsequent drain bamage. A noticeable decline over 18 years&#8230; sad but true&#8230;<br><br>However all of the issues I had to go through, this place was my sounding board and &#8220;sanity roll&#8221; so to speak&#8230; I could always count on y&#8217;all to comment and or lift my spirits. <br><br>We&#8217;ve gone through a LOT<br><br>But this time?<br>It&#8217;s the worry about the Dooney and the nasty shit that seems to be metastasizing out there&#8230; just like Cancer, the evil is propagating, and well&#8230; new job\/new baby\/new outlook, I think I&#8217;m going to shutter this place for a spell.<br><br>I still have my long-neglected substack, in which I think I&#8217;ll keep doing, but ONLY focusing on military hardware, prepping and gunsmithing, and dumping the poly-ticks completely.<br><br>It really sucks<br>I&#8217;ve spent the better part of almost 20 years beating keyboards to death, howling at the moon and the darkness&#8230; and this time?<br><br>I&#8217;m not going to endanger The Dooney in any way, shape or form. I mean I have NO IDEA who did this, however, the complete eradication of my Google Ads and Ad $$$, and a few other issues I haven&#8217;t spoken of, and I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s time to hang up this current iteration of Ye Olde Blegg, and see what the future holds&#8230;<br><br>So from the bottom of my heart, I thank you for the years of support, both spiritually and financially when we needed it, and keeping me relatively sane in a World Gone Mad. It&#8217;s been wild.<br><br>I will be available for DMs and on Twitter\/GAB\/and Poast so feel free to reach out still&#8230; Just &#8216;cos I&#8217;m closing this haus don&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m dead!<br><br>See you on the other side!<br>Big Country Expat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;That&amp;apos;s All Folks!&quot; - Porky Pig\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FkHCf6sjBgo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations Frens&#8230;Whelp&#8230; I suppose it was inevitable. &lt;SOMEONE> reported Gretchen and Myself to CPS for abusing the Dooney. They&#8217;ll be here in the AM&#8230; It&#8217;s total bullshit of course.HOWEVEROne cannot ignore &#8216;Imperial Entanglements&#8217;&#8230; I&#8217;ve been around this here bleg-o-sphere for quite a spell, and had a LOT of good times and bad with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/9959\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sayonara!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9967,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions\/9967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}