Absence

For anyone interested (a dubious premise), I've been away for awhile, recharging my batteries (Duracell of course), one might say, which is why I have not been blogging lately. Or to put it another way, I've been in foreign climes, sunning myself on sandy beaches, ogling the sensual señoritas, sampling the local cuisine, bathing in warm tropical waters, and generally living the life of a hedonistic heathen. Nothing out of the ordinary there, you exclaim, and you're probably right, but there's no harm in trying to throw off one's image of the boring old fart and don that of the international playboy, is there? 

And just to give flesh to my words, here I am in an exotic faraway place in tourist mode contemplating the lunch arrangements... amongst other things... Yes, it's true, enjoying oneself can be an awful drudge and has to be meticulously planned. One slip-up and you could go from enjoyment to, well, non-enjoyment! And that would be unthinkable. So you can understand now why I'm in pensive mood. I must get it right.

But now that's all in the past, albeit recent, and I'm back to work and back to reality. Time to pay for the trip and earn another one. Time to roll up my sleeves and get serious.