I was going to use this essay to apologize for not being able to update the web site. I was going to explain how JUST after traveling to New York City and proposing to my girl friend of two-and-a-half-years I managed to get a cold. The cold wasn't that much of a surprise seeing as I'm a transplanted New Yorker, five years broken by the perpetual nice weather in Los Angeles. So I barely managed to do the New Years Day update when I got sick. The cold lingered for two weeks. I had to work, which of course slowed the healing process. On top of that, I took the last of my Christmas money to buy a new huge hard drive. Thanks to badly written instructions from the fine folks at Maxtor and a corrupt floppy also from the same fine folks at Maxtor, installing the new hard drive totally screwed up my system. That made updating the site rather difficult as I had started some updates before my machine went south. FINALLY, everything is up and running for the most part. But just now I wondered why I should bother apologizing. I mean, who actually READS this page anyway??? I barely even hit it myself! SHEESH! Nobody ever vents on the Ventilation Page and I wonder if anyone actually downloads anything from the Bitch Fun Page. For now, I'm going to keep on with this site, but I devote an awful lot of time to get as few hits a week as I get - I am contemplating possibly shutting down the whole damn site. I just don't see the point.