Yes, I know it has been a long, long time since I posted. But I have a good excuse. I've had the plague. Okay, maybe it wasn't the plague, and just a really heinous cold. But it felt like the plague, so that's the story I'm sticking with.

To compound the plague and make it stretch on even longer than it should have, my mother came to visit. In the aftermath, I have not had a chance to blog. To make up for it, I declare this week (beginning today and continuing on through next Tuesday) Blogapalooza. Because everything sounds better with apalooza after it.

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