Our apologies for the absence. The great Remonstrans crash of 2007 was not as much fun as I'd anticipated, and if any other bloggers out there are considering a similar strategy for alarming friends and readers, I would discourage it.

The data center where our server is located went down and we were told it would take about a week to fix. Thanks to Dave's work we at least have an internet presence again and we're trying to tidy up some things. Please bear with us.

I was in New Orleans monitoring Dave's progress from the laptop. Things, when they started coming together for us, came together pretty quickly. Or so it seemed from a distance; actually Dave put in some long hours to do it. The bags of money you all have been sending me should be sent to Dave for a while.

We're now scrounging for the missing posts and comments since 15 January. They exist, but I'm not the judge of how well my copies will serve as replacements. I'm as excited as anyone to find out.

I'll reload Monday's post. A few of you may have seen it before we faded to black, but I can't imagine many did.

And then sometime there will be the dreaded vacation pictures as well.

Or maybe not.