Powerful Avocations From Sin:

If you’re curious, I have returned. Eight tortuous hours of chipping ice out of our gutters, all the while astride an unsteady aluminum ladder. I’ll take this opportunity to thank God (social constructionists and cultural relativists are welcome to insert the name of whatever deity or French post-modernist they prefer here) for:

My emerging without injury,

Katherine, who did a fine job of keeping my spirits high through good cheer and pigs-in-blankets, and

Gore-Tex -- there's nothing better.

I’d also like to send a shout out to Drs. Stewart Adams, John Nicholson and Colin Burrows, and offer my personal thanks for their synthesizing Ibuprofen in 1961. You da bomb. Now, let the blogging begin …