(See below for 2/26/04 update.)

I will be Away From Keyboard until the 25th. Questions: Can I stand it? Do I wish I owned a laptop? Answers: Yes and Yes.

This is a tad frustrating from a blogging-perspective since the site has finally reached a stage where it is being linked to fairly consistently and also attracting item comments. Thank you to my readers! I hope you continue to find something of interest here when I return.

In the mean-time, please do use the links at left to explore some other news and info sites. There's a lot of good stuff over there. I'd particularly like to draw your attention to the blog sites on the list that either reciprocate or have been particularly generous with their linkage:

Aaron's Rantblog, American Digest, Angry Left, The Argus, Banagor, Celestial Blue, Classical Values, Common Sense & Wonder, Dancing w/Dogs, Davids Medienkritik, Dean Esmay, Dissident Frogman, Dodgeblogium, Elegance Against Ignorance, Freedom Loving Girl, The Ghost of a Flea, Hasidic Rebel, Head Heeb, HipperCritical, I Am Always Right, In Context, Insomnomaniac, Israpundit, Israellycool, Little Green Footballs, Marmot, Martin Kimel, Mind of Mog, Mutated Monkeys, Mythusmage, My Wide Blue Seas, National Security Blog, Normblog, One Hand Clapping, On The Third Hand, Peaktalk, Peoria Pundit, Phillip Coons, Protocols, Regnum Crucis, Right Wing News, Roger L. Simon, Setting the World to Rights, Silent Running, Smooth Stone, Somewhere on A1A, Terra Taco, The View From Here, Viking Pundit, Weekend Pundit, Who Knew?, Young Curmudgeon, Yourish, Zogby Blog (My apologies if I've missed anyone)

I have deactivated comments to prevent abuse while I'm gone (mostly from spammers).

See you soon!

Update - Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004: Back! Sort of. Off again to a business convention tomorrow and for the weekend and I'm sorting things out and getting caught up here in the office today. When I checked my email last night I had 700+ emails - mostly spam of the unwelcome sort, but much of it self-inflicted. All of those news updates and email pointers were a difficult temptation to resist after having spent the past nine days avoiding the news like the plague. Sadly, the world did not wait for my return, spinning on regardless, and it was all I could do to avoid spending the entire evening staring at the computer screen taking it all in and risking my marriage. May do a little updating here, but honestly, I don't even know where to begin. See you Sunday.