Sorry sorry sorry as she rushes into the rom,papers flying, scarf fluttering. I've got two or three half-written blog posts and then....oooh, shiny object!.....distraction came in the shape of

a) Fucking rotten damn mean weather (that is to say, they forecast (forecasted?) snow ABsolutely POSitively for 3 days in a row. Each day it either showed up at oh, y/know 8 pm or came for 10 minutes but every day shut me down because i don't go out in snow. I have trouble keeping warm, I dread the traffic hassles that can ensue, I worry about getting back home if there's crud on the pavement. This resulted in the cancellation of birthday dinner plans on Saturday, and getting out yesterday ever for a celebratory latte.

b) trying to use brains to write reviews rather than blog. Reviews hard but we gotta ramp it up over at RTE and I have three reviews pending and I just gotta get some sentences in a row, hard lately even harder when you've upped the pain meds just that much because of the weather. Oooooh loook it's fluffffffffy!

c) setting up a Facebook page. Yeah, i did. I am. I caved. I'm one of the last to give in to the Great Satan's Third Cousin Once Removed. Truly the best right now is reconnecting with a couple of people from high school. Old and current friends are great - but when you hated high school, don't go to reunions because you figure they celebrate "the good old days" and yours weren't - then finding those few people who mattered in high school is really very cool indeed. Finding out what paths they took and how things turned out for them, that is huge. And FB allows us to all send a paragraph or so. No, I don't write letters any more, but i email. But even there, I'm so often remiss. But the faces over on FB allow me to reconnect with friends like Beth Cohen in Arlington, or with folks from somewhere in my life. A couple of DLers showed up to say hello and I'm so grateful for the reconnection, which I need (especially after another enforced 3-days-in-the-house. Facebook can be totally absorbing when you start, and I know things will calm down. Writing here is home for me, thanks so often to you folks, and the little news bits on FB are cool, but often a little too close to "twittering" for me and i don't think i ever need or want to know that X is taking a nap, or Y is running errands. sorry. Getting to know a few of you over there is fun too, since blogging is far more of a one-way street, and Facebook is hanging out in the parking lot on your way to doing errands. Stealing from this great line from Ruth Jordan of Crimespree Facebook is like passing notes in algebra class. But it's better of course, because you don't get caught and threatened with detention (unless you're doing this at work when you should be um, I dunno, working?

So it's above freezing (barely) but nothing is falling and I must out. I do want to offer apologies for the continued "ee cummings effect" on this blog. I'm having some issues with certain keys - getting warn out so I lose a lot of touch typed words and have to go back and painstakingly insert the missing "o" but I also am having issues with the Dreaded Shift key and simply can't deal with going back and capitalizing every "i". I hope this doesn't make you as crazy as it would make me.

In our continuing series on "what Andi saw v what was there"
Sunday's travel section in the newspaper offered an article on "biking through wine country". I read "Bilking through win country." Which is another idea all together nu?