On a side note, am I mistaken, or did you take a hiatus? I was missing your posts so much there for a while. You have a wildly entertaining, wonderfully distinctive writing style. I can usually tell it’s one of your posts by the first or second sentence, without ever having seen your tag.
I did indeed take a hiatus. I took a much better paying job which requires long hours and long distances. I am grateful to God to have it, as it came when desperately needed, but there is not a lot of free time. I am between gigs right now. I missed it here, except for the paid mourners I see are still with us, like an ideological herpes.