PERPLEXED NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE: As ever, the Truth Laid Bear system has me a bit bamboozled. Only yesterday I was a flappy bird, happily ensconced between the 6,600's and the 6,900's, and content with my lot. Today I learn that I am a slithering reptile again, which I can live with if I have to, I suppose, but the Bear now says that I am now listed at 10,000 or so and the graph with my links has fallen faster than a drunk on a bobsled run. I concede that I may have fallen greatly in the estimation of my fellow bloggers; anything is possible, after all, when you point out that mountaineers are simply litterbugs looking for new places to trash; but to fall some 4,000 places in less than a day without the use of alcohol,dangerous drugs, or video of me doing something incredibly disgusting with Pamela Anderson seems more than a little odd. Has anyone else had this happen to them? A sudden drop, I mean, not the drugs or Pamela, although if you have video of yourself with Pamela by all means share it with the rest of the blogosphere. We're not prudes.