Leaving office
Now that the election is over, there's one question peeps across the nation are frantically asking:
Will Fred come back for a third term?
As you may or may not be aware, my current two-year term at Finding Fred runs out this May. Knowing this, I've been trying to decide for the past several months whether to seek a third term (assuming I'd be running unopposed) or ride off into the blogging sunset.
Well, after giving it much thought, I've decided that four years of blogging has given me - and hopefully everyone else - more than enough time to find Fred.
So, this May will bring my blogging to an end. At least on this site.
But I don't plan to leave you peeps alone. In fact, I have a list of worthy substitutes who I have complete confidence in to lead peep nation in the years ahead.
Granted, I haven't consulted any of these peeps about this. Good thing they have six months to get their policies in place.

Follow up:

New list of candidates
Before I get to listing candidates, I must sadly say that "Webmaster" Mark is not a candidate. Not that I wouldn't leave Mark fill my shoes (well, actually he probably oughta wear his own), it's just that the Webmaster already has his own blog.
Then again, "Mrs. Webmaster" tends to do a lot of the actual blogging -so perhaps Mark would be up for double duty. For safety's sake, I might wanna run this by "Mrs. Webmaster" first.
In the meantime, here's some safer candidates and their would-be Web addresses:
Bradford "Fats" Swink - Spats With Fats (a source for competitive disagreement), or possibly Fatside Chats (where he listens to your problems and offers friendly advice while guzzling Mountain Dews and watching the St. Louis Cardinals).
"The Pastor" Kyle Sullivan - Kyle's Guile (where he cunningly devises carefully crafted arguments - well, except for the cunning and crafting part).
Tim Bryniarski - Shake 'n Shimmy with "Texas" Timmy (on second thought, maybe this isn't such a good idea).
Todd "Chubbs" Lowe - The "Round" Table (a place for my oblong-shaped brother to eat and discuss ideas - perhaps he and Bradford can do a bi-partisan work on this).
Making wise choices
OK, so there's four worthy candidates (assuming Tim stays on the ballot) for you guys to choose from -possibly five, should the Webmsater comes around.
Still not sure what I'd call Mark's site. Perhaps you peeps might want to vote on it.
Or, you could vote for more candidates.
Just don't plan on voting me out before the end of my term - unless you plan on offering me a nice severance pay.
Hmmm... now there's an ideology I can embrace.
Awaiting my future replacement,
The Departing Blogger