Yes, I did vanish. Job-related upheavals have had me working on more important things. Now I'm trying to clean out the remaining crap in my house so that I'll be ready to have my fiancee move in after she magically turns into my wife on August 1.

I'm sorry that I got sidetracked - the Beck shows are still on my DVR and I'm just now having some time. I'm going to try and watch them with a notebook in my hand to hit the salient points when I post.

Mind you, the new job starts next Monday and I still have paperwork to file, daughters who still need things (one who needs me to be a taxi) rooms to clean and SOMEwhere in there I'd like some private time with my fiancee (just got the rings a coupledays ago)...

I'm living under that old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times".