Return to blogging

In the past few months, I've had about, let's see, I've got the number written down somewhere here, about eleventybillion inquiries about when I am going to return to blogging, why I'm not blogging, if I'm dead, abducted by aliens, living in a Buddhist monastery, etc. These are fair questions, and the answers are: 1. I'm returning to blogging starting this evening. I don't know that I am going to be able to keep up the pace I once did -- blogging Monday through Friday, federal holidays excepted. More realistically, a couple times a week seems more probable, but we'll see. 2. Last year I had a crushing workload, and something had to give. Blogging, although an important life activity and something I really like doing, had to take a back seat. My workload has returned to manageab