Normal service will be resumed shortly. posted by Richard Seymour

I know, I know.  I'm a neglectful blogger.  And you poor dears have been hanging around the dodgy looking blogs for your sustenance.  God-only-knows what that has involved.  I don't like to think about it.  In mitigation, I have been working on a manuscript, among other things.  But I will, if you can just hold on for a little while longer, return shortly with a beatific smile and wonderful gifts for you all.*  Safe, fam.

*Obviously, not real gifts.  More like 'gifts', as in 'the gift of laughter'.  Fake gifts.