That’s how the old expression runs. Though I feel in no threat of imminent demise due to my recent laziness, I want to thank those who have gently and not so gently pestered me to get off my butt and type something. It is to those of you I now apologize for the...bloginess of this entry. Merely a way of catching up so we don’t jump from Nan Madol directly into tepid Truk without a little backstory. I’ve been in the US a couple times since last year; musings to follow. The differences are overwhelming. Not good or bad necessarily, just mighty different. In between those US trips I have spent a couple months back in Truk and am back again until the end of the year. New boat responsibilities have introduced a new learning curve that has been eating up my time and sleep, making writing a distant second. No excuse, unfortunately, for all my off time when I could have been writing instead of messing around. It’s fun to blow off a year’s worth of weekends in a two months, but not conducive to keyboards. So, without further bloglike ado, some half baked stuff that’s been kicking around on the drive for a while. Once again, thanks for reading and prodding me to get back to it.