No, we're not back. Just passing through.

As most of our loving public has deduced, the USS BDS has pulled into port to give her crew an extended shore leave. After spanning the virtual globe fighting crappy blogs, beer-induced memory loss of better times and the general onset of malaise usually associated with four months of Royals baseball, we've earned it. No, we didn't think we'd actually pull the ship into dry dock for this long either, but that's the way things have worked out.

We'll skip the detailed excuses for our past and future absence. No one wants to hear that crap anyway. If/when we return to our regularly scheduled programming, it'll be sometime down the road.

Until then, enjoy the rest of your summer beer.