Thanks for this and that

All the doom and gloom reports about the coming global pandemic is becoming a little more real for me. Just had a horrible bout of something. I'm not even going to compliment it by calling it the flu. Suffice to say my head felt as if it had been ringed with IEDs and some joker with a cell phone dialed them up all at the same time. My eyes looked like someone butted out a burning strawberry Twizzler in each one. I'm pretty sure it was some foreign virus brought over by a Canadian or something.
That's the excuse I'm giving for not posting here for a while. But I feel an obligation to thank loyal readers, contributors and rumor-mongerers for their assistance in this enterprise. In fact, I was feeling so low recently I missed the first anniversary of this blog. I think the first post was Jan. 23, 2006.
I don't know how long I can keep this drivel up. I'm running out of ink.
But I think I'm going to get cranked up pretty soon about something, so maybe I'll put up a few more posts before I shut this thing down -- in 2010.