What a difference a... long absence makes!

So when last I posted, whether you realized it or not, Ellen & I were planning to jet off to Italy to live happily ever after. The only kink in the plan was that, while we are both imminently hire-able as the illustrious English teachers we are (and modest, too!), nobody in Italy seems to know how to hire an American. That doesn't mean they're not willing to learn. It just means the visa process takes as its model, that famous Chinese import to Italian cuisine, spaghetti. And with visa relations the way they are these days, that may be more accurately modeled as pressure-cooked spaghetti, or ramen noodles (fried into a block, but curly as ever. And yummy with chemically-salty "broth" powder! What, did I go too far?)

Anyway, so we're back in the States to stay... for a while. Who knows how long? And, guess where? Well, if you read more of these blogs in the future (and, oh yeah, I bother to write any more of them), you may just be able to guess. No, you can't crash on our floor. That is, unless we've already said you could. You know who you are.

And with that little bit of existential ominousness (ominosity?), I leave you to your devices. L8r!

Went to Agua Verde today with Ellen, from which we paddled through the Cut to the Arboretum. We had a bit of trouble with the rudder when we tried to paddle backward through the mud, but got ourselves turned around, saw some wood ducks, among others, then came home and started doodling with the HTML to show all of you!

Happy now? :-D

Inaugural Entry(auspicious, or to be excised with an auger?)

I suppose I'm doing this to explore the tantalizing array of options Google is giving us to digitalize our lives (while I, you, we, and maybe some others turn the other cheek, about what they and other companies may or may not be doing in parts of the world we don't scrutinize daily).

I also suppose I'm doing this because MySpace looks sort of childish, by comparison. And coughs. And hiccups. And tells you, "You can't do that without logging in!", when you're trying to log in.

Lastly, I suppose I'm doing this because my first, convoluted, unconcise sentence allowed me to use three "-ize" verbs, and that's fun. No, I don't spell 'em "-ise", but that ain't wrong, either. Just a different dialect.

And thereby, the teacher rears his (insert adjective here) head. And also thereby, I find I have nothing else of consequence (as if what I've said so far was of consequence) to say for the moment.