Returning to Normal

Jet lag hit me hard a couple of nights ago. Seven-thirty p.m. and I crawled in bed, clothes and all, and simply collapsed. Since then it's gotten better. Nine-thirty and last night about 10:30. And, instead of waking at 4:30 as I was the first few days, I'm sleeping in till the late hour of 7 a.m., which is about normal for me. Getting back into the home routine has helped. Picking up the girls two days a week at school, Wednesday morning out with Bailey, trips to the library for all. Cooking supper a couple of nights. It's all part of the regular hum of life. Things are returning to "normal." I haven't made it back to the gym, but that will probably happen today. It takes time to get back into the rhythm of things. But it happens.

Back by Popular Demand

The blog has been on hiatus. I wish I could say because the blogger had been soaking up sun in some part of the South Pacific out of range of the internet. Does such a spot exist? But no, the blogger has simply been his usual slothful self, more interested in avoiding any semblance of effort ("work"), and has been "taking it easy." However, as Conan Doyle discovered when he tried to kill off Holmes, you can't keep a good blog down. The clamors for the return of the blog have been simply, in a word, overwhelming. The blogger has received requests for its return from as far away as England! Yes, England, where the literati have access to Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Chaucer, Marx, yes, and his mercantile companion, Spenser. Therefore, this blogger is truly "humbled," as celebrities with bloated egos always say at the Oscars and Baftas etc., and can do more than obey the wishes of an insistent public. So, the blog is dead, the blog is dead.... long live the blog!