I’M BACK

In case you folks gave up on me, wonder no more. I’ve just returned from a five day sojourn down to Atlanta, visiting Kathleen’s family for the holidays. Three week old Caroline had the opportunity to meet her eight week old cousin, Genevieve (hope I spelled her name right). Whereas Caroline was 6 pounds 13 ounces at birth, Genny was over nine pounds. At this point, Caroline is approaching seven while Genny is at twelve. We posed the two of them together and it looked like the opening sequence of “Twins.”

I’m never much for trying to do entries while on the road, because I have a hard time typing with any keyboard that’s non-ergonomic. If you do a lot of typing and you’re still using a standard keyboard, I cannot suggest more strenuously that you switch to an ergonomic. It’ll take about a week for you to adjust, but you’ll get your speed back and you will save your hands. There’s no question in my mind I’d have Carpal tunnel by now if I hadn’t switched five years ago.

Because we were reluctant to expose Caroline to a crowded airplane, we wound up renting a van and driving down.. The van rental place didn’t have the one we contracted for, and wound up upgrading us to this deluxe nine passenger vehicle I promptly dubbed “Cattlecar: Galactica.” There was onboard TV and video player, and a ton of room, and yet Kath and I still managed to repeatedly hit our heads whenever we moved around the interior.

Stopped at several comic book stores while down there: Oxford Comics and Doctor No’s, where I chatted with long-time friend and store owner Cliff Biggers. Cliff’s “Comic Shop News” is going to be doing an exclusive feature on “The Fallen Angel” when we’re ready to promote it in a couple months.

Happy holidays to all.

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