I hope I’m back, at least part time. I’m not even sure where I’ve been. There were health issues. I won’t even bore you with the details this time. It’s probably just a matter of having to take things that depress one’s immune system. You really miss your immune system when it’s not doing its job. Between those problems, the routine doctor visits and tests and the fact that getting medication means frequent trips a bit farther afield than my neighborhood pharmacists, there are fewer hours left for extras.

Then there was some devastating news that a friend got. It was so bad that it was hard to think about anything else for a while.

And there are the not so bad things like planning my daughter’s baby shower. Now I know that mothers aren’t supposed to give showers. I was raised right. My own mother came from Connecticut so you know she taught us well. However, there’s local custom, too, and that’s how things are done here more often than not. So, together with her aunt, I’m putting together this shower. I’m like the last person in the world to be doing something like that. I’m terrible at these things. She’d be great at it, and that makes it worse. You want to do as good a job as the guest of honor would, but that seems unlikely. Her aunt, my sister and co-conspirator, is even less the Martha Stewart type than I am.

My son’s band is thinking it’s time for a redesign of their site. If I’m going to continue to update it and manage it, I’d just as soon do the designing, too. It’s a lot harder to maintain something that someone else has done. I’m not getting inspired, though. Or, more accurately, I get half-inspired a lot. I’ve started a bunch of different designs only to decide that they wouldn’t do after I’ve spend a few hours on them.

I think I’m going to take S.M. Dixon’s advice and consolidate, at least for now. If the comment spam can be controlled I’ll do my blogging here. Otherwise I’ll have to bring it over to Blogger. The one blog will have to accomodate my political rants along with the personal stuff.

I’m not in a position to post much political content anyway, because I can’t keep up the way I have until recently. I don’t mean I’m not paying attention, but in this world of blogging and 24/7 news, “not keeping up” can mean not finding out about a development for a few hours or a day. I was better at it this summer when I was home getting treatments. Now that I’m back at work I find that life is too demanding right now for me to be able to make much of a contribution to the lefty blogoshpere, but I’ll be reading it and rooting for it.

I’m trying to catch up with some of my favorite blogs. I see that Ronnie’s been sick, but seems to be OK now. Waiter Rant is redesigned again. Jude is away in New Zealand and Millie is going strong and still having a good time. The Reality Base, formerly Semidi is now Semidi Says and is redesigned once again. I’ll have to change it on the blogroll again. I still have a bunch to catch up with. And a lot of invitations to write.