I seem to have gone into a bit of a hiatus with this weblog, but it wasn’t intentional.  I’ve been supporting our economy both online and locally.  I’m starting to think that our recent economic uptick has been solely due to my activity outfitting my new house and getting ready for Christmas.  I know I’ve bought way too much stuff.  I hit the trifecta today with deliveries from Airborne, UPS, and FedEx all in the same day.  My emperical economic study has also shown that Amazon.com is shipping a copy of the AOL (if I hear the word optimized again my head will rotate) 9.0 CD in every single shipment.  I threw out three of them today alone.