I'm back.

(And the crowd goes wild...)

So where the heck have I been?

Well, I spent December 19th attending my grandmother's funeral in Enid, Oklahoma. At age 85, she was my last remaining grandparent.

As it happens, that was also my 40th birhday. That's a little more mortality than one should have to face in one day.

Christmas with my parents wasn't as grim as you would expect, following something like that, but neither was it exactly festive. I spent a lot of time hanging out with Paul, and old gaming buddy. I drove back to Houston on the 26th.

I then promptly contracted some kind of respiratory infection, which meant the vacation time I took between Christmas and New Years basically went to waste. I still haven't entirely shaken off the effects.

Plus, I spent entirely too much time playing Anarchy Online.

When I refreshed my blog front page and saw that all the editorial content had scrolled off into the archives, I decided it was time to get back in the game.

So, I'm back.