Adios Muchachos (y Muchachas)!

This space will be idle for the next week and a bit, as I'm off to the Dominican Republic with the Mrs. and the in-laws.

I promise to think of you all as I sit on the beach--reading, smoking titanic Dominican cigars, drinking cervezas, and evening out my sunburn--and I shall try not to allow those thoughts to turn to pity ... A task so formidable, I think you'll agree, that really it is you who should be pitying me.

God speed you, friends!