Hello, longsuffering readers!  I’m back to tell you, yet again, why I’ve not been back lately.    It’s mostly the chronic reasons:  horror at the dissolution of freedom, numbness at the sheer banality of its destroyers, and resignation that I can do nothing to affect the collapse.

 But there’s also an acute one:  I’m going back into metabolic ketosis.  I did it for several straight weeks once, and it never got comfortable.  But it turns out it can take a whole month for the body’s enzymes to fully switch over from burning carbohydrates to fats.  My energy isn’t much lower than usual right now; OTOH, I’m barely into the ketogenic state.

Long story short:  your host hasn’t been writing or blogging because he’s busy being a fathead.