Hello and welcome back to the rants and ravings of one Alex Pendragon, a personality you have come to know and love over the years via many varieties of the blog format. It has been a very long time since I blogged, and there are many reasons for that, including, for instance, the online literary opium known as "Face Book". It has claimed many victims other than yours truly, so I shall not waste any more space apologizing for sucumbing to it's Walmart-like allure.