So it’s been awhile.

I’ve been blogging on and off since 1995, when the word didn’t even exist and I’d make updates to my pre-tables “Web Site” via a Unix text editor. So for a few years there were miscellaneous enthusiastic alerts about my cats and husband and my “business”, Aries Web Designs. Around this time, also in Unix command lines, I was doing something that will haunt to the end of my days: I would whois domains — jill.com, pets.com (“There is no listing for jill.com”) — and then not buy them, because they cost about $75 and you had to send away in the mail or something. Anyway. I made some other sites, like Sutro Baths and MUNI Haiku, which I still have, and many others I don’t. Blogging the George W. Bush years was one long blasting torrent of outrage, all of which I’d rather forget happened. Gone were the genteel posts of yore. And then I kept it up awhile, and then I went away. And now I welcome you back.

I’ve imported some favorite old posts, so there may be some retro formatting and topics all up in there — including the long-running Tuesday Cocktail Break.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

— August 2009