Regarding the previous entry: I hadn't planned to go _two months_ between postings, but it seemingly took me that long to get it ready, mainly because of competition both digital & analog. For all that, I forgot/left out a few items. Fortunately this medium allows for easy correction.

When it comes to the analog world, my reading of periodicals & books has so far not recovered from my (curiously-timed) tour of New York City last October. Though we were only there some five days, indulging my compulsion for setting things down took me in this case from Halloween to Thanksgiving! Incidentally, having finally seen Manhattan up close, I found it all amazingly positive, given my attitude of previous decades. Easy to agree with the "We are all New Yorkers now" sentiment.

Actually, the neighbor I mentioned before _was_ originally a New Yorker. How he wound up in _this_ college town I apparently never asked, though I intend to if I get the chance. He still lives there, only a few blocks from where we moved to. Funny thing about that move: it seemed to accelerate my idiosyncratic development, which, from what I'm told, showed up early on. Gradually drifting away from my friends, I traveled through adolescence as something of a loner--except for my family. Evidently we stick together more closely than has been typical for this culture & era. And here we still are, a few of us currently on the same corner lot we settled in 1967. After my own various quasi-independent episodes, none of which now bear elaborating, I returned here again nine years ago as an ILYA (Incompletely Launched Young Adult): a designation I'm not proud of. But it no longer applies--I'm too old!