Goddang. It's been nearly two months. Sorry about that.

Do I have an excuse? You bet I do. Am I going to tell you what it is? You bet I'm not. Not yet, at any rate. But the last five or six weeks have been a very trying time, and further updates are looking very unlikely for at least another two weeks. In fact, if you like, we could just reconvene here on, say, September 1.

But a couple of housekeeping items, while I'm here.

The notification list is still running, and seems very likely to keep on running. Given how erratically I run my blog, and my life, having a notification list seems like a good idea. I can't imagine it's much fun to keep checking this site, only to find that nothing has changed. But thanks to everyone who's signed up.

The other thing is that the good folks over at the Samoa Times have found out about my war with Samoa. My imaginary war with Samoa.

So let's be clear about this. I fought a fictitious war with Samoa. They won. I lost. It wasn't even close. It never looked likely to be close.

Even so, now that real Samoans might find out about it, I have a very real concern. I worry that they might decide to start a fictitious war with me.

This, then, is my life. Or part of it. More in a couple of weeks.