B-Day (Patreon)

 I'm five days out from my birthday and I'm already getting a small flood of well-wishers on this and various other sites.  Yes, thanks for that.

So,  what am I getting for my birthday, you may ask?  Well, I did have plans  to rent a beach-side cottage for a couple of days next week over on the  "left coast" of Florida...just the wife and I.  Summertime is actually  the off-season over there.  You step out the back door, you're on the  beach, you look left, you look right, and odds are...you're it.  No throngs of pasty mid-western tourists, no speedo-clad Europeans,  no giant high rise hotels full of said tourists, not even that guy (in a  speedo) with a metal detector.  Mimosa for breakfast, bloody mary for lunch, and what-have-you for dinner.  Old school, Floridians only vacation.

Instead, however...I'm getting a fucking hurricane.

 So yeah, if you notice a lack (or limited amount) of posts after this coming weekend it's because the wife and I are sitting in the dark listening to the wind howl. 

Now, don't be alarmed....this ain't  my first rodeo.  We're on high ground, the generator's got plenty of gas, got plenty of food and water (and alcohol), and the little town we live in (unlike a certain soggy metropolis in Texas) wasn't built in the middle of a swamp. 

I have however, scheduled a couple of posts to cover the interim, but don't be surprised if I don't immediately respond to your comments.  I'm gonna be extremely busy with (real) work until the sky-maelstrom gets here and (more than likely) without power for an undetermined amount of time there after.