'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam...

Hurray! I'm going home tomorrow for a three-day weekend in Maryland and Virginia -- woot! In the words of Bon Jovi's unlikely country-music duet with Jennifer Nettles, "Who says you can't go home? There's only one place that calls you one of their own."

On that note, I have several friends who I think have literally dropped off the planet. It's really disturbing. All I can figure is that the rapture must've happened and I got left behind.

But, once I find that they are, in fact, alive, all will be well.

Life is good.