An honest-to-goodness vacation, our first in many years. Just got back yesterday evening after a long drive that include almost every nuisance delay one can imagine. Not much blogging over the last two weeks, but I'll be sure to make up for it with post-game commentary.

Descriptions would not be complete without mock-biblical allusions to the floods, vermin and pestilence we encountered along the way. We would not be detered! I ate macaroni with Uncle Vinny, swam the width of Jupiter with da boyz, and hopped the Atlantic waves on North Carolina's outer banks. A worthy two weeks on the road -- though I wish we'd been able to see Joe and Phyllis in Orlando (but the day we were scheduled to get there is the day Charley the cat-5 hurricane arrived).

More later. Still getting settled.