Well, I'm back in the blogosphere, and the new look (which is actually just a recreation of an old look) is thanks to several factors...

1. I never got this "new" version of blogger when I had the old blog. It's pretty spiffy, too.

2. Apparently having a gmail account gave me a new blogger account, so I figured the effort it would take to use this account (compared to the effort required to resurrect my old account) was pretty low.

3. I forgot my old blogger account name/password. Big problem there.

So, thanks to the persuasion of various people, I've decided to come back to blogger and favor everyone with a dose of myself.

Ahh...I sense an evil laugh coming on!