i'm back

(insert blogger excuses, etc here)
i'm back from my blog hiatus, sabbatical, lapse, period of laziness/sloth/inactivity/retreat/hiding/hibernation/whatever.
i have no excuses, i just wasn't feeling it. lots happened, though. lots that i'm not going to recap. instead of doing the whole "here's what i've been doing for 8 months", maybe it'll come out in humorous anecdotes of the past which relate to timely current blog posts. i prefer to focus on what's at hand. as for the past....feh.