I’m back! Did you miss me? No?!? But I missed you! Not fair.

So, I obviously haven’t been connected to  the Internet for days because of the East Coast Katrina known as Hurricane Sandy. Easily the worst storm in New York City during my lifetime. We’ve had other ferocious weather, to be sure, but never this type of sustained assault. It felt like it went on forever. Dozens of people  died, and as horrible as that is, I’m (very happily) surprised more didn’t. I have some  displaced relatives whose homes took  serious damage. Now they have to deal with the overtaxed folks at FEMA and insurance companies and all that fun stuff while still trying to deal with  their workaday lives. It particularly sucks  for the older ones.

I hope all of you readers who were in the  path of the storm are well.

This is the first time since the Internet became a thing–the thing–that I haven’t logged on for a day, let alone several days. I missed you, Internet. I missed you, Second Brain. Let us never part again.

Thanks to all of you for your patience. Just a couple of posts today, but I’ll return tomorrow to continue mocking horrible people, letting you know about elaborate monkey funerals from 1895, and putting up posts about all  the cool, futuristic stuff that will exist long after we’re all dead.

You know, the same crap that’s always on this blog, just worded slightly differently.

Darren

P.S.: To that fellow passenger on a Brooklyn bus on Wednesday who whined repeatedly that the bus was “too warm” just hours after some of our neighbors drowned and were electrocuted, go fuck yourself.