BUT IT'S STILL HERE

Mother Nature was apparently working some rough chuckles while I was away on the East Coast; there are blown-down tree branches all the hell over the place, and cable was just restored here a few hours ago after being out all weekend.

For some reason I always feel like there should be Tremendous Changes wrought while I'm gone, such that I'll return to a completely different thing somehow, but San Francisco and all my people are still more or less the same. My house, oddly enough, is the most changed -- I have a new housemate and some furniture is different. Also the thermostat is broken. So there's that.

Also, my mom reads my blog now.