Someone was nice enough to buy me a membership for 3 months. This came as kind of a surprise--since more than a year had passed since I'd posted anything on SG, and kind of not as a suprise--since a very random, non-SG person, contacted me out of the blue a couple of nights ago... after 12 years of having not spoken. C'est la vive.

Two things:

1. If you purchased this account for me, please contact me via PM, e-mail, comment, etc. It's no big thing; I just feel that, at the very least, I owe you a drink or five if you're ever in the Old Country (or if I'm ever by your parts), simply for the generous gesture. Don't be shy.

2. I have no clue what's gone on in the past 20 or so months! Feel like clueing me in? Go right ahead. I didn't leave because of any beef or such; it's just that Uncle Sugar keeps sending me to fabulous vacations in southwestern and central Asia, where I can't really visit the site, and Telecomm Italia makes it amazingly hard to get internet connections hooked up when at home. Case in point? I'm in Weisbaden, Germany right now (Frankfurt had no affordable hotels that I could find) and burning time before I get back to Aviano.

Other than that, for anyone that cares, things have been kind of nuts, somewhat exciting, and rather entertaining for the past year and change. I hope the same holds for you as well!

Ciao,
P.