Still here

Visitors have been wondering why the postings have been so sparse lately.   It's a good question.  Fact is, I'm still here, but the past two months have been a succession of setbacks that we're just crawling out from under.  We've been through blizzards, power outages, a week-long Internet outage, visiting relatives, one car scrapped when the big end went and the other in the shop with a cracked fuel pump due to the"green" government's insistence on putting ethanol in the petrol leading to lovely ice in the fuel line.  Oh, and there's been a bout of sinus, a bit of minor surgery–not to mention car hunting to replace the dead Blazer.  The latter was particularly bothersome as being down to only one car meant that I had to play chauffeur for up to twelve hours a day.  Add on a load of lost deadlines because of all of the above and the postings had to take a back seat for a bit.

Anyway, the light's at the end of the tunnel or the eggs on the boil or whatever metaphor is apt, so these ramblings will get a bit more regular.

Knock wood.