Please Accept My Apologies (Again)

My blog has been experiencing some sort of identity crisis, the nature of which is still being worked on. But it appears that I can once again post entries, although I can do so only very slowly -- saving each change (title, text boxes, etc) one-at-a-time. The mystery birds and other entries that I schedule for you will return tomorrow, hopefully. I will be tweeting and sending these new entries to newsfeeds, so if you don't automatically check here, that's where notification will appear.

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