In the comments to the last post, StuporMundi asks about the reason this blog’s had some tumbleweeds blowing through it the past month or so:

Is your absence from the blogosphere the price we pay just because you felt it necessary to get a job?

The answer is yeah, kinda, which I know is a crappy reason- most people have jobs, even people with fairly active blogs, and I’m sure I’ll learn how to do both. But at the moment, my whole rhythm has been thrown off. My previous working style involved waking up and reading the Guardian- in print, because I am anachronistic- and then scanning about a dozen or so blogs, and seeing what it got me thinking about, so that by mid-afternoon I had a handful of things to write about and could update at least once a day. Since leaving England and taking on a job with office hours, that whole system’s been thrown out of whack, and I haven’t yet figured out what to replace it with. From this point on, I’m going to make sure this blog’s updated at least thrice-weekly with readable content. Additionally, there’s still down and distance, my weekly football/etc column at troubl.org, and within about two weeks, some regular writing coming for a very cool, very legitimate organization that I’m really excited to be associated with. So stay tuned here, and I’ll make it worth your while. I appreciate the patience and continued attention while things are busy, but there’ll be a schedule here again presently.