Apologies for the blog silence. Deadlines crash around me like turkey bombs and summer socializing has absorbed my off hours.
It's been hard to stay out of the fray, as there been so much fine bloggery from Stephen, Barbara, Alec, Jim, D'Arcy, Laura, Martin, and Gardner... just to rattle off a few posts that have provoked detailed but as yet unwritten responses from me... And there have been other posts that have truly annoyed me, and it's required some discipline not to take a poke at them.
But for now, I'm trying to focus. It doesn't exactly come naturally. I'll be back when I'm back. Peace out.