Well, not so much on the air as over the phone line -- after three weeks of searching for some alternative, I finally had to give in and get dialup access. The new house is, unexpectedly, in a technological dead zone: no cable internet, no DSL, unworkable satellite broadband. Even the wireless internet people couldn't connect me -- and no amount of shameless groveling urging could convince them to blast away the ridge blocking my view of their transponder.

Ah well...back to smoke signals.

It seems a few things have happened while I was offline. Much blogging to come...