Dropping off the Net

I’d hoped to get more blogging in today 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 girlfriend 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 Victor Davis Hanson’s Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power and Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (the latter with a small sense of obligation to Eric at Eric’s Random Musings and John at TexasBestGrok).

Hopefully, I’ll also give a little thought to some ideas for this blog in hopes of making it a more enlightening, or at least entertaining, experience for both you and me. Blogging will resume probably Sunday or Monday, depending on the Super Bowl and my work pager (Alas! I go oncall on Monday). ‘Til then …

Out.