It is really very strange to write completely factual things for a long period of time (more than five minutes) and I have been doing that very thing for several weeks now, trying to get back to my normal style of Things. It hasn't really worked all that well, but I get mad and angry more often. I am also incoherent as a consequence.

For some reason, I couldn't write anything tasty either, and I still can't figure out why. But I am back, trying to regain what my fingers seemed to have lost in the cracks on my keyboard.

I am very thankful to those of you who commented and sent smiles and kind thoughts my way. I do appreciate you guys a lot, and I am going to respond to the comments everybody posted while I was gone (soon, not right now; I am doing laundry).

Meanwhile, I am dusting off my chair and keyboard, putting boring books back on their shelves, and making clickety noises with my favorite mechanical pencil. Someone put the kettle on:)