The funniest part of this is I doubt anyone will read it. I have been gone so long, at best lurking in the shadows that odds are most people are not the least familiar with the scant work I have done.

At best all I can say is, I've been away. Being creative is hard enough, but to force it removes any and all satisfaction in the effort and the finished product is at best only marginally satisfactory. So I lurked. Now however, I am attempting, in a meager fashion, to move out of the metaphorical "Land of the Lost"...

The humorous part is, I almost find myself truly there, in the Land of the Lost, in the very physical sense. A desert wasteland in which I hope to find myself. No journey to Mecca, although I am closer to the actual Mecca than most would believe. But the Haj to Mecca is a different journey altogether.

So, like a message in a bottle, I write this more for my own benefit than anyone else's. I hope to write some more, perhaps return to contributing in some small part to the community (the inflation community), and see if I can dust off some skills that at one time I greatly enjoyed.

Peace, out.