Getting Back to Business, or at least to Blogging

I have not even looked at this blog since the last post, last year, so you can imagine how out of date it looks to me. And I'll leave to your imaginings why I haven't bothered to blog--it has not been due to disinterest as much as a conscious decision to rein in my various interests in hopes of keeping first things first. I think now I may be able to pick up blogging again, and perhaps use this as a means of focus rather than allowing it to distract. We'll see...