First off, I apologize for being away for so long.  I don’t think I’ve ever let this place go without a post for 20 days, and I don’t intend to do it again.  I really miss writing here, and it’s been probably the second thing I’ve missed the most, just behind seeing my family on a semi-regular basis.  After having such an incredible first year, I really didn’t want to start off Year Two with nearly a month of absence.

Unfortunately I got thrown under a crunch bus at work last month, and then while I was getting back up and about to start writing again a second crunch bus came along (this one included weekends!), and as I stood in the street dazed and seeing stars, the massive layoff bus blitzed by, narrowly missing me, although when I wasn’t looking the restructuring double decker bus blindsided me.  I’m lucky to still have a job, even if it’s doing something I haven’t done in a few years.  Added bonus of crunch bus trampling:  25% loss in overall health quality.

And while I was dodging/getting hit by metaphorical busses, my main home PC (the one I typically write and make graphics on) got hit with some awesome ransomware.  Fun times!  I’ve just now got it back up and running after a complete drive wipe, and I hope to have the graphics software operational within the next couple of days.  Oh yes, I’m afraid this battlestation will be quite operational when Santa arrives.

At any rate, I apologize again for throwing a bunch of excuses up here instead of an actual piece.  I really needed to start writing something just to get the “juices flowing” again.  I’ve got a handful of pieces that I’ve been positively dying to share with you from this past month, so please, don’t turn off your RSS feeds just yet.

I hope you don’t mind the staleness of them; the fresh perspective on the topics should help overcome the lapsed date on the side.

More coming soon.  This week even!  I swears.

Now if I can just find my FTP access notes…