Ten Days without the Internet

Sorry about my recent absence.  I have spent the past ten days in Italy (mostly in Florence) on a family vacation.  The hotel there, while wonderful in most ways, offered an internet connection that was so slow as to be effectively useless.  But I am now back in town, ready to deal with the several hundred email waiting for me and to work off the extra three pounds from all that wonderful pasta and gelato.  I will also return to posting here more regularly.