Saul is back

My apologies, dear readers, for the long blogging hiatus. I got behind on the things that I was planning on blogging about, and the more behind I got, the more things I wanted to write about, and the more work catching up seemed to be. But I have come to realize that this long period of inactivity has probably lost me several hundred readers. Considering that the overall readership of my blog is in the high tens of millions, one might think that this need not be a huge concern for me. (I have no direct evidence on which to base this tens of millions figure, but I derive it from my own estimation of my personal charisma and global influence). But it is a pity to lose even one reader. So in order to redeem myself in the face of those several hundred wayward, faithless, impatient, attention defficit disorder-afflicted louts, I am returning to my blog. Hooray!

I'm going to try to briefly get to some of the things I've been thinking about and doing over the past few months. I'm not going to go back and talk about everything. Some things I might get around to later.

I think that in order to quickly get around to more material, I'm going to quote some letters that I've written to people in the past few months. So if you're inclined to say, "Hey, that jerk just copied that blog entry from a letter he wrote me two months ago!", well, what are you going to do? I'm in China. Come and get me. Bring it on.