So where the heck has ChicagoRev/NotShyChiRev been, all 3 of you who dutifully read this may be asking?...well...at the risk of sounding like the whiny little toad I've become...

I mentioned the post-chorus retreat croak, right?....well it just got worse...about a week ago I woke up coughing convulsively, like a large gelatinous beast was trying to escape my left lung...and I had this really nasty hot-poker-every-time-you-swallow sore throat...

Turns out, what I though was just that cold I had escaped while in Florida, turned out to be a chiller-diller of a Sinus Infection/Bronchitis...my third bout with this little combo in 6 months...not a good sign of my general health and well-being. I've been hacking up a lung, and emptying my sinuses of unpleasantness (that bears a striking color resemblance to that.) ----------------------------->

I'm now in day four of the antibiotics, feeling almost human again. In the meantime...I've been a sucky pastor, a bad friend, an inadequate son, and a piss-poor (pardon the expression, I revert to my white-trash roots and curse a lot when I'm sick.) chorus member.

In the midst of this thing building into proto-pneumonia last week, I had to do a funeral, host my younger sister and her family, participate in two contentious board meetings and call the cops 3 times for kids smoking crack in my church parking lot at night. It's been a rough week. :-)

Let's just say I didn't have the energy to even flip on the computer, let alone try to craft something pithy for your entertainment/edification/annoyance. (not completely true...I did actually write a sermon and preach it on Sunday...day 2 on the antibiotics...and with all due modesty, I can tell you that it blew chunks...probably my worst ever...)

So, I'm on the mend...again...and hoping to resurface bit by bit over the coming days...