Well, I am back. I meant to burst onto the scene with a flurry of exciting news and a nifty new web design, but nothing has happened according to plan. My dear friend and guest blogger has been taking such good care of my little corner of the world that I suspect no one has missed me.

But here I am.

Rob is out of town again, and I thought I would get a lot of work done this week if I did not have to worry about him or writing here, normally the two things in the world I enjoy the most. As it happens, I did not get that much done at all, although I am making up for it today. I am not leaving my apartment until I complete a lengthy list of tasks.

Which leaves me with a peculiar situation.

It is a beautiful day in New York, sunny and easily in the mid 70s. The problem is that the radiator in my apartment is blasting enough heat to simulate the core of the sun, and there is no way to turn it off.

So I turned on the air conditioner.

Here I sit at my computer with the two of them duking it out. Why am I always in the midst of so much conflict?