who the heck?

[shame-faced]

I feel in need of a spanking for what I've done, ladies. No, really, damnit! Give me a spanking! :p

I'm sorry to have gone on hiatus so abruptly without a word of warning, not so much as a sign of parting to mark the interim. I assure you that my momma didn't raise me that way. I couldn't go into a bar in Texas, tell this story, and leave with all my teeth. They ride people out of town on a rail for less provocation! A backwoods posse is after me as we speak! :p All right... enough with the hyperbolics.

And though it feels good to have returned to the roost, so to speak, seeing the amassed comments from you, my blogger ladies, notwithstanding a few soon-to-be-swatted spammer flies, rekindled in me the tender flame of propriety, of what is right. Like dead letters that the postal services could not deliver, they seemed so sad. How could I ignore that?

I mean, logically speaking, I am rude... but this is ridiculous! And now I stand before you, a wanderer harried for years... uh, weeks on end (hat-tip to the Coen Brothers), a searcher ever-seeking for that mythic connection to everything and everyone and yet inexplicably disconnecting for some six weeks hence. Go figure.

In answer to some of the speculation, yes, the job has been intensive. People who work sixty hours a week might be offended by that statement, but allow me to explain. I mean, I was on part time hours for a while before this job came along. This is more than a twofold increase in time logged breaking my ass for the man. (And not a twofold increase in pay, btw)

Nevertheless, the job did not win! I would be a dry well at a desert crossroads if I did not wake up to life beyond the distractions bound up it the bludgeoning realities of eeking out a living. That is what I'll take from it all and feel fortunate to have returned. That you are here also is simply the best part.

And yet it grows nigh unto the witching hour about now. I need to close out for the night with a solemn vow to actually come back tomorrow and repay your fidelity in kind with a long-overdue visit of my own to your domains and, maybe, just maybe, if you're lucky... a comment ;)

I kid. I'd be skinned for anything less and rightly so. Thanks for coaxing me back, blue and Annex. :) If Jen is out there among the English, I hope she is well in her travels, too.