An aside

Sorry about the long absence - it's been a combo of travel, national holiday and a general boredom with the headlines (an entire week of news and not a fluffernut sandwich in the bunch).

I don't want to write much about the trip (because it's the subject of my next News & Record piece out this Wednesday) but I will say that I learned that I can be more patient than I think I can be and not to judge a cracked-out truck driver by the busted blood veins in his eyes - he might just let you live, after all.