Well, it's been a hell of a last ten years. But things are better now. In fact, as of today. Basically, all the crap I've had to deal with and knock down pieces of, one by one is now behind me. The last scheduled commitment from since we moved from Oregon back to California for business about three months ago was completed today. And so, I find myself full of energy with some money in the bank and ready to grab life by the something or other. So, while I went for months without posting things here, I'm back again (among other things). This blog was supposed to be my catch-all for every creative thing I did in any field and also for all the cool things I come across on the Internet, hence, "Life and Times" as it says on the masthead. But, I got blocked up because I wanted a real chronology and everything I ever created before was backlogged and unorganized. So, I dumped a bunch of it here, but that wasn't very satisfying as there was no way to see ...