I’d hoped to get more blogging in tonight but you know what they say about the best-laid plans.
Anyway, I’m out of here in the morning for a weekend retreat with my fiancee and her family. I will not have internet access, so if you must find out my opinion on something, track me down in a cabin at Beavers Bend State Park in Middle-of-Freakin’-Nowhere, Oklahoma.
Meanwhile, I’ll be doing some light hiking, keeping an eye out for bald eagles and probably a large amount of napping and reading. For reading materials, I’m taking Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad, Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation’s Future, and Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (the latter with a small sense of obligation to In the Bullpen‘s Chad Evans). Which one I actually crack will depend on my mood at the time.
Blogging will resume probably Sunday or Monday, depending on the Super Bowl and my energy level. ‘Til then …
Out.