Typepad (who hosts this blog) was having all kinds of technical problems over the past 24 hours making it impossible for me to log in and approve comments or post anything new when I wanted to -- although the blog itself was visible to the public for your reading pleasure (lucky you).
In fact, I now cannot even remember what it was that was so damned important an hour ago that I just HAD to blog about it. I got so distracted with not being able to log in that it's completely slipped my mind.
Gee, it's fun being over 40.