Latest Hiatus Explained
I've been so leery of blogging for the past six months and more because I'm fearful that another jerk will come along and leave an obnoxious comment, as someone did in October (whose content I was able to delete, although the message's shell remains). That, and I realized that so many of my blog entries were critical and complaining in nature, and I don't want to be perceived as being that kind of person, no matter the extent to which such a perception might be true--which is why I was so stung by the vicious remark left after my last post, which I had deliberately couched in what I believed to be positive, upbeat language.
Let's see what happens this time.











Welcome back, Pete.