07/02/05 SAT:
---”Weekly” blogmail is being sent four days late owing to camping trip I got hauled off on. Turned out to be a nice vacation, despite a couple weather events that put a damper on things. Probably won’t send a blogmail on the usual Monday or Tuesday next week. It is a holiday anyway--one that I noticed many Minnesotans leaving the Twin Cities heading north were getting off to a bad start on, with a huge amount of traffic stop-and-go the other way, while we had smooth sailing heading south back to Iowa and the pea-soup of heat and humidity--though for the moment we found it much improved when we made it home last night.
---I was able to check email once at the public library in Two Harbors, weeding out all the staples.com offers, audio advisor clearance updates, netflix advisories, etc. etc. etc. I was unable to answer any pertinent emails on the clunky connection (and I thought mine was bad) in the time alotted--but that was my fault because I sat down at the library’s card-catalog computer without bothering to look at the clearly marked sign, replacing the library’s pre-set with the URL for AOL and getting to my email that way. It worked, but not very well.
---Now that I am back I will endeavor to get myself back on track. The worse part of vacations, I’ve found, is not the time away but the time spent running around in circles before finding the way to get back in the harness--which I am never that good with anyway--in the days after returning.