Yes, folks, I'm alive and well. All the holiday joy and festivities kept me away from the exciting world of bloggery. Thanks to Dave for covering for a bit, and for adding hideous pictures of quasi-dictators to the site while I wasn't looking. I hope you all had a good Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus/Decemberween. To start out the new year, here's a bit of New Year's bloggy humor, courtesy of Diesel Sweeties.