A note about the delay that close readers of this site might have noticed.

As I hinted in my last post here, I've been going through apartment issues. I essentially had to move out of my apartment in late November and stay away from it through much of December. All that to give the landlord an opportunity to do about four days' worth of work in the place to repair some issues that they'd refused to fix when it happened.

So... In November, with very little notice, I had to move out. I spent the first two weeks of December in Montana. I've been back in Seattle since December 14, but had to do a massive amount of cleaning and rearrangement in the apartment. I was essentially moving into a new place that hadn't been cleaned up beforehand.

But Monday, I was finally able to start the last stage of this odd process. A friend helped me -- in three trips -- to move back into this place all the boxes of stuff that I'd had to oh-so-quickly move to a storage area in November. Because I'd had to move it out so quickly, I didn't have the chance to cull out any of the old papers and old photos that I no longer want. So that's what I'll be doing for the next couple of days, but then it will all be done and I'll be able to devote my full attention to this site.

And so I thank you for your patience with this. And please stick with us as we move to beta 1.1 of this site this weekend, and look toward beta 2.0 by February.