About once a year, things in my life converge in such a way that I have no choice but to put up the can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. What this means: I'm so swamped with deadlines and commitments that posting here will be light for a while. E-mail responses will be sluggish if not totally non-existent. You will hear or see little of me until more deadlines are met. But in the words of General Douglas MacArthur and all the cockroaches I just had exterminated, I shall return.