Those of you who have known me for any length of time, are familiar with my disappearing acts.  *Poof* I’m gone, sometimes for a week or two, sometimes for a lot longer.  Most of the time, however, I haven’t really gone anywhere at all, and of course those of you who have known me for a long time realize that I’ve never stopped thinking about you, and that nothing’s changed.
Images of a crazy mad scientist’s lab might have crossed your mind, or some nutty idea that I’d like to run …

  I can’t stand mine.  Well, more accurately, I don’t know them, and I don’t really care to know them.  It’s not that they are bad people, but every interaction I have had with them just left me with a kind of a “meh” feeling, and not enough motivation to pursue it any further.  

  Sometimes, we’ll be warming up our cars at the same time, or checking the mail, and it’s absolutely CRUCIFYING for me.  I smile, do the “neighbor wave”, say “How ya doin” and go about my business, rushing …