Wow, this might be one of the longest periods of time I’ve kept my mouth shut on this blog. It’s not entirely intentionall. There are three or four draft posts. But let me tell you what’s going on.

1) The Sprout is Two. In fact, he’s going to need a new nickname soon. The boy is tall for his age, for starters, and once you start chattering—we’re close—“Sprout” no longer applies to you. He keeps me busy at home. And since we still live in a very small two-bedroom apartment, the noise a two-year-old generates keeps me from writing except early in the morning and late in the evening. The energy a two-year-old requires keeps my early mornings and late evenings to a minimum.

2) We may not be in an apartment much longer. We’re finally buying a house (fingers crossed). Closing is in late October, and the house roughly doubles our available living space. More than that, since the house has a lot more storage. There will be space to write in. That, of course, is also taking time.

3) In the writing time that remains I’ve been working on my own book. I will have more about that soon, but 1) it is non-fiction and 2) it is not about computers or politics. Well, not about the politics of governance, at least. It’s about something I rarely discuss here: work.

But I still remember my password here.