After a brief break, I’m back behind the keyboard. I’ve already put in a few early-morning hours working on this site. Those are my best hours, you know, and I think that work will show up here soon. As I have mentioned before, I’m refurbishing the old place as I go: otherwise, it simply would not get done.
Speaking of things I’ve mentioned, I had to go and mention hurricanes. Two weeks ago today, I mentioned that Hurricane Helene, still in the Gulf of Mexico, was headed my direction. As it happened, the storm veered east without affecting me at all, but we know what happened to thousands of others. (You will remember, I touched on the inland damage hurricanes can do.)
Now, as I write, Hurricane Milton literally is within hours of making landfall in the midst of a very vulnerable and populous stretch of the Florida Gulf Coast. Milton is a strong storm of dreadful potential that is certain to create misery for thousands more. I wish I had never brought up hurricanes. No, I’m not superstitious, and I’m fairly certain I have no influence on nature, but having introduced the subject, I feel a feeble follow-through is warranted. We–the A&J cabal–have a lot of fellows and friends and family in the path of these storms. Our hearts are heavy.