Not Dead! Back from Hiatus

Howdy all,

Thanks for all the notes. No, I am not dead or even especially sick. Just busy with work and a new, completely unproductive hobby.

While all blogs are completely narcissistic enterprises, I decided that mine was getting an increasingly negative, whiney tone to it, i.e. complaints about this and that, rants about news articles, complete and total meaningless trivia etc. Not interesting, not fun and bordering on the anti-social. It's easy to descend into a cozy world of self-reinforcing diatribes and cranky rhetoric when your friends agree with you and, before you know it, you're well down the road to being a crazy shut-in with 5 friends and a lot of cats (or dogs, fish, chinchillas etc.)

So I took a break, got my head out of that, and now am thinking about trying again. This time with the view that things should be lighter and less self-involved.

So, from here forward, look for fewer but hopefully more entertaining posts.