Typepad has a crash and a lot of folks had posts lost . . . I lost this post which suddenly seemed to cease to exist . . . took a while to recover it but I have re-edited, re-framed, and re-published with the old time and date so, except for this notice, it seems as if nothing every went missing . . . just like those alien pod people who take over the lives of missing people . . . well, not just like that, but close enough for our purposes.

– Brian