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Steve should have "gone back and grabbed a few blogs" by now - it's OK to close this blog now.

It looks like I'll be the last entry in your last blog. Nobody can take away the memories we have of what Janesville 'used to be'. I'm glad that you shared many of yours with us. I wouldn't give mine up for a million dollars.

I have enjoyed your blogs for a few years now. I'm sorry to see you leave, but I wish you good luck in your future.

Thanks Steve, Enjoy life.

I saw the title of your blog and thought 'Oh Boy' - the end of Gen-X'ers in Janesville - they just litter the streets. But I see it's just a blog that ending, so you can imagine my disappointment.

Because I don't want to spend the rest of my life regretting that I did not say something nice about you, Steve, I am breaking my resolution of not answering a blog. In truth, I have read every one of your blogs for the past couple of years and I don't know if I like you or not. Reading you is a lot like drinking prune juice, you need it, you don't like it and you think it might start tasting better but as long as it does what it is supposed to do you can tolerate it. Your Janesville and my Janesville are two different places. But your Janesville is probably closer to what Janesville is today, and that just plain upsets me. You have painted a pretty good picture of what you think and you have done a masterpiece of "how" you think. You might be a one picture artist or you might be an artist who can stand back and look at all of your art as a collection of art that really is quite good. If you were to be judged by how well you stirred emotion you would get the ribbon you so much need. I would enjoy running into you on the street and giving you that hug that you so desperately need.

And now on to Gen-Xlax...enjoy your escape!

I'm sorry that you are not going to be blogging anymore. I always enjoyed reading your blogs and will miss them. Perhaps we, the readers (myself included), are somewhat to blame since rarely did we let you know how much we enjoyed them. You write well and your topics were varied and usually comment inspiring. That fact that you continued to write in spite of the thoughtless and mean comments by some Gazette readers made me proud. Maybe some day you will come back again to make us smile and nod our heads in agreement. I will miss your blogs very much.

Take care, Steve and thanks. I hope you successfully reach your next set of goals as well.

The door. Be careful.

Thanks Steve for sharing a part of your life with us. To be honest, yours is the only blog I found worth reading. I left Janesville in 1977 (in my 30's) and recently moved back to retire in the town that's always been "home". Your blog reminded me of what I had been missing without realizing I had been missing anything. Best of wishes on your future endeavors.

Thanks Steve! I always enjoyed your Blog! You always had good topics and discussion.

Thanks for the great articles, Steve. It was a good run and I'm glad you're comfortable ending on a high note.

For what it's worth, if you ever start a hobby blog, I hope to book mark it. I've enjoyed your writing and think if you did it for fun, you may find it more enjoyable and less of a chore.

Cheers and best of luck,.

If the Gazer is close to the $180 per year online only subscription that The Monroe Evening Times implemented, my guess is the blog would be shorter on insults, so you might reconsider.

Good luck and thanks for the info, the chuckles and the cringeworthy entries.

Good Bye Steve. I think I've read all of your blog entries. It's been a couple of years since you had a really good entry, so I guess your departure is long overdue.

Seems even the bloggers will have to pay. That is stupid.
Who will I pick on now?

I've always enjoyed reading your column. Thank you. Good luck with your next journey, Steve!

Its not because the gazette online is going off-linesoon

I don’t know much about the Generation-X. I do know they will never experience what I did from my generation, four dollar fill-ups at the gas pump, able to buy a good used one owner car that is only six years old for about six paychecks or my first pickup from the GMC truck dealer for $550.00, seven years old, again about six paychecks, or go to a convenience when I lived in California and buy a burrito that they warm up for you and get a beer to go with it and get change back from your one dollar bill. I miss those times, life seemed less intense and more enjoyable. Good luck Steve with your endeavor.

Always enjoyed reading, Steve. Thanks and best wishes!!

Thanks for your efforts Steve! Best of luck to you!

While I think your blog would sometimes win the Gozer’s “Too Much Information” award, you’ve consistently been interesting and entertaining. Thank you for that!
“I'm ending Gen-X in J-Ville.” Isn’t this is the third time we’ve heard that? It may be a “chore”, but it’s obvious that you really enjoy doing this, and after a couple of months, we’ll see you back again. Until then, we’ll just have to encourage Eyster to pack it in and follow you into the Olde Blogger’s Home, watching the sunsets and wondering where you left your notebooks . . .

Thank you Steve!!! Good luck and take care!!!

This is a sad day for me Steve, who can I bully about religion now besides JohnE?
Maybe I'll see you down at the Farmers Market this Summer...
I'm just sayin'...

Thanks, Steve.
Best wishes to you for a great 2013!

Thanks Steve

So long Steve. It's actually rather typical of Generation-X'ers to avoid commitments - they come up a little short on real-life capabilities. They bore easily, get tired of something and - bam - throw it away or divorce it.

I'll miss you Steve. I grew up in Edgerton and left when I was 18 but I check gazettextra every week to keep up - and if you have a blog I always read it. Best of luck to you in everything you do!

You were my inspiration Steve:) always room for a guest blog on p&g if you have something to say:)

I will really miss reading your blog! It was one of my favorites. Best of luck to you.

Little Miss Sunshine.

Your blog seems to have come along at a bad time. With the country being severely punished by the Obama regime, I hardly noticed your little corner of sanity. But looking back, I would have to say that your corny, trivial little blog seems - well, corny and trivial.

It's been an interesting era for Janesville. GM finally leaving us alone - the public unions trying to destroy our state - and now another four years of careless spending and increased public debt on the horizon. I don't blame you for just taking your ball and going home - there's lots of heat, so just stay out of the kitchen.

Steve, I will miss your blog. This is do to the honestly you communicated, that made me shake my head in agreement. I am 60, so not sure if that's generation X or not. Looking forward to your new outlooks on reality.

Good Luck Steve and please, NO CITY COUNCIL!!

Thank you, Steve. I learned a lot about Janesville from you. You write well. Good luck in your other creative endeavors.

I keep saying the same thing sax but he won't do it. Best of luck, will miss the blog.

I think your columns are probably at the top of readership. Your perspectives were always down home. As times have become so left vs. right, you focused on the things that connect us all. Good Luck.
p.s. (Steve Knox for city council! )

Bon Voyage Steve!

I have really enjoyed your blogs over the years, Steve. I grew up in Janesville, but now live in Virginia. Reading your articles connected me back to my hometown. Good luck with your new goals!