I’m writing this at about 0130, mere hours before I will be hitting the road to go up to Boston and start my journey through boot camp and into the Coast Guard.  I’m excited, and a little nervous, but I’m confident that I will be able to handle it. I may or may not be …

After a week of my blog being offline (you may have noticed the error page), it’s back on the Internets.  I had a disagreement with my hosting company, but it’s all settled now, and I’m good to go.  We’ll now return to our regularly scheduled programming.