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By tsmith on June 22, 2006.

7 days, over 2000 miles, and 32+ hours on the road (half of it with 2 kids and a dog). I need a vacation from my vacation. Thanks to most of you for your patience; I see I've already been accused of "censorship" for not being around to approve some comments that got stuck in the junk filter, but everything has now been published and I'm working my way through the rest of the comments (and catching up on emails, reading, lab work, etc.) Have a few posts in the works for today and tomorrow but they'll likely be without any heavy science; I'll get back into that again next week.

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Welcome back, sorry I couldn't catch up with you. Maybe if you hadn't been censoring my voicemails... :)

Tara writes:

Thanks to most of you for your patience; I see I've already been accused of "censorship" for not being around to approve some comments that got stuck in the junk filter ...

Yes, God forbid we miss even one post of a Hank Barnes or Wilhelm Godschalk ... then you just never catch up. :)

Welcome back.

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