Well … not that I'm actually coming to you on the meter wave of space or anything, but yes, my self-imposed exile has finally ended.
What happened?
After posting the small bit about car accessories [1] I found myself too aggravated to write for the next few days (although I did complain a bit on a mailing list [2]) and when I finally calmed down about that a few days later, the work involved in getting caught up just overwhelmed me.
And then that was followed by a few more days of aggravation, followed by a few more days of an ever-growing backlog of possible posts, followed by a day or so of aggravation, by a few more days of an ever-growing backlog of possible posts, followed by …
Scrap all that and just start back up.