TEMPORARILY INCOMMUNICADO

because it's raining, and raining and raining and raining - has been for days, will be for days - our phone lines are out.  this somehow always happens in a lengthy rainy spell like this.  so, i can't use the computer at home.  right now i'm at the library for a moment, trying to read some news and commentary online.  i don't know how long this outage will last, so just wanted to let the journal world know i'm in techno purgatory.  not any other kind.  i'm feeling much better as the days go by.  better living through chemistry, as the patron saint of Delaware - the DuPont Co. - used to say.  i'll be posting as soon as the phone lines dry out.