Can't Level Up Fast Enough

I feel kind of like I used to feel about the time that I quit playing Everquest. At that time I was trying to wrap up the semester, and starting to spend a fair bit of time with the girl I would end up dating in a few months, along with a few other things I can't remember, and all the people I had been playing with were now several levels farther along than I was. The whole point of Everquest is to play with other people, of course, and as anyone who's ever played any online game from Counter-Strike on up knows, most people playing online are horrificly annoying. I'd managed to find a small group that I hung out with, one in particular, and I logged on one evening and realized that the guy I played the most with could kill monsters my level with two hits and didn't get any experience or anything out of playing with me. I hung around for a few months anyway, but it was just a matter of time from then on until I quit.
    I'm starting to feel the same way about 'blogging now (but Metzger, you quit months ago. Shut up, that's not the point). The point is more that I don't spend anywhere near the amount of time online that I did my senior year at Hillsdale and my first year out, which was probably the top of my 'blog career. Krupa, for instance, seems to be leveling up at a rate far outside my limited powers at this point, which is not to say that I'm giving up 'blogging any more than I already have, it's just that this is a conversation in which my participation is hugely limited, and that affects my enjoyment of it.
    On another note, Typepad appears to have re-vamped its interface in the last few months since I posted to be more accessible to the computer illiterate, which means that I can't seem to edit my html without going into a seperate window and when I try and add nice normal links it ruins the html coding unless I go change it. I found their "Adding links for idiots" button, but it's a really inconvenient interface. Sam, do you know there's a switch somewhere that I can use to turn off their damn auto-coding??