Absence Explained

For those of you who don't follow the rest of The Weirding's ring (yuck!), you know I have been absent for a while but might not have known why.

I went shopping for a new computer but there were all sorts of problems in finding one, so I just took a short "vacation" -- which wasn't really a vacation by any standards.  It mainly relied on my traveling some several hundred miles back and forth many, many times over.  I did manage to get the old XP back up and running -- somewhat.  According to the modem I got for it, it still manages to reboot randomly, thanks to some kind of bullshit problem between the modern and -- what else -- Windows.

At any rate, I will be getting back to business soon, but I can't make any promises.  One thing I did was format an entire box on SuSe Linux 10.x.  Although that will be a fantastic back-up, until I get the modem configured correctly, I can't get online with it, so it's still touch and go for now.

The Rundown is about to be kicking tomorrow and this weekend, as I try to meet a bunch of ad deadlines, as well as catch-up on all the goings-on I've missed.  Here, I will be discussing stuff I found in some good books I read while away.

I have been so busy that I am starving and still need to fetch smokes, so I'll try to get back to you ASAP.   In the meantime, thanks again for hanging in there.  And, if anyone has anything to contribute, please feel free to do so -- it is more appreciated than you can imagine!