To paraphrase Mark Twain, "The rumours of my prolonged absence here have been exaggerated." Dearest apologies for the long, long lull away from this nest--on account of what have been four and

Struggled to get this written--first at hive.blog, then @Ecency's draft queue, and then (when the first attempt to save turned out rather impossible) back at Hive; the Ecency app was lagging away while

Told you we'd make it--but with just half an hour to write this post, and a ton of music in KLPC's archives to take care of, I really wish it were much, much more. Had things gone better earlier today,

It happened that I stayed on the last post's editing pane; a five-minute buffer warning came up as I was about to give it one more tweak; and then--bah!--this had to happen. What I had in mind for the

"'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things, 'Of shoes and ships and sealing wax...' " --Lewis Carroll And the very hashtag you may be noticing right now, effectively taking