I got busy and took a break from the blog for nine years. This is, more or less, true. I was waiting for the right time to jump back in. Like many folks, I found myself involved with an app called Facebook. It seemed like a much easier way to "blog" and rant and share. But Facebooger, as we know, has experienced long overdue growing pains and I'm not as comfortable sharing my genius with data mining bots and Russian trolls. The Facebook experience is now more and more like making snow angels in the dog park. Since we last met, Ping and I moved to northern California and live in the heart of wine country. Lucky left us two years ago for that great dog park in the sky. We haven't found another dog yet but we became a cat hair household last year. We adopted Mochi and Wu last spring and they've adapted well to our strange ways. Moch is a standoffish male gray tabby addicted to scalp massages. Wu is valium cat, a cool and easy-going mouse-hunting ball of marshmallow