And . . . I'm back

Where was I, you ask? Well . . . nowhere, actually. I've been here every day, checking my blog to see if it's spontaneously updated itself with all of the exciting and wonderful things that have been happening. It hasn't. So here I am. And, though I rarely play catch up (I figure if I don't get it on here within a month of so, it'll never happen), I'm actually going to do it this time. For posterity. Because one of these days I'm actually going to make a blook from blurb. You know . . . a blook. (Blog+book=blook. I just made that up. I like it almost as much as snow+rain=snain.)