I said I’d be offline for six days, but now it’s been nine days, the last three because I have been flat on my back with some kind of weird flu, to the point where I couldn’t imagine even getting up and going to the computer to write this one paragraph. Better today, but still recovering. It may take a few more days to ramp up, since so much else around here remained undone while I was sick. I DO plan on taking puppy Shadow for a walk, right now. So that’s a good sign.