I'm back 1/24/12

     I'm back after a short blog-cation.  No, I didn't take a road trip.  No, I haven't been having so much fun that I just didn't have time to blog.  Wish that were true.  Not so much.  I've been gone because:

• It's been so dreary and yucky and cold that I barely left my place for several days.  Doesn't give me much to write about.  Plus, the weather monkeyed with the wifi, and being able to use the internet was sporadic at best. 
• The constant jackhammering at OceanPark next door, and from the remodeling tenants above me, the last several days required that any smidgen of patience and concentration I had in me be devoted to my writing project.  Nothing left over for frivolities -- like having a life and blogging about it.
• I've been bugged with bugs, and finally, yesterday, the bug man cometh.  That was a horrific nightmare experience which I won't recount here, but it's given me gobs of material for my memoir.  The working title is "Life Gone South."  I'll let you know if/when it's ever available in stores so you can read the whole bug-buster story.  Unfortunately, the nightmare continues as I've been cleaning up bug carcasses all morning, and even worse, finding the little muthas on their backs with legs and antennae twitching as they die.  Sorry little dudes.  You've made me suffer, now it's payback time.

     So, it's a new day.  Had a slice of sunshine sneak through the clouds while I was having coffee, the first sun I'd felt on my face in several days.  It's balmy out now, and we may even see more peeks of sun later.  I'm headed out beachwalking to shake off the drudge of the last few days.  And get away from the roach motel for a little while.