Don’t be alarmed; I return only to perform some badly needed maintenance/updates and post the previous snippet from this weekend’s family reunion on Nikki’s dad’s side out in Lake Tahoe (a place I had never been before and enjoyed quite a bit). I should also explain the Current Coolness which depicts a 2005 Honda Civic. No, I haven’t become one of those street-racer geeks or anything, but we did purchase a sensible new car a couple of weeks ago and for the first time in about four years Nik and I both have our own means of transportation!

Needless to say this is quite a development and aside from the fact that it has left us essentially broke, we have both enjoyed our freedom from the previously ceaseless juggling act of picking ups and dropping offs that so influenced our lives.

I continue to make no promises regarding my frequency of posts. I command you to accept what you are offered and consider it sufficient! I, on the other hand, will now return to sipping my Diet Pepsi and Minute Maid Light Lemonade mixture—a secret delight whose exact formula can never be revealed.

Kindly disregard my rudeness; it seems that absence has made me surly and my manner has descended to that of a savage from my lack of exposure to society proper. I shall attempt to re-enter your world slowly and in measured doses, so as not to frighten your children any further than they may already be.