You are coming to a sad realization; Cancel or Allow?

I'm here. I exist. California hasn't slid into to the sea nor has it yet been completely reduced to cinders. I haven't fallen off the planet. I have merely fallen out of the habit of updating this thing, and I apologize to my four dedicated readers.

But I'm back!
You know, more or less.

The fact is that I've got about 4 months' worth of partially-written entries backlogged in my Edit Posts window. I'm going to do my best to backfill the missing chunk of time, which could make for a confusing read. And will probably just delay any actual current updates by that much more, which is pretty much what got me into this mess to begin with.

One thing I have going for me: I have a new computer at home! It's easy to blame a lot of my many-month absence on my complete lack of working home computer, even if there were several other factors. My old laptop was about 10 years old, was running Windows '98, still had a floppy disk drive and relied on a modem for any sort of connectivity. Which pretty much made it unusable to me for the last several years. I was instead dependent on my work computer for almost all personal applications, which also limited me to either staying in the office after hours, or lugging my work laptop home.

So between my new job (I'll get to that in a backdated entry) taking up so much of my time even after hours, and not really wanting to stretch company policy by keeping music and photos on my work laptop, I had no choice but to make a new purchase.
And it's a MAC!
And I love it.
Of course, the time thing isn't really going to change, but at least when I get home I have my shiny new MacBook Pro calling to me, making me want to pound out even a couple sentences. We'll see. Also, I'm much more likely to start reading others' blogs again. I've been completely negligent for months.

In any event, for reference, any entries between 3/28/08 and this one are backdated. And probably lame because I doubt I'll bother finishing 'em much or remember what I was trying to say when I began them.