Excuse me... is this on?

*yawn*

rwac stretches, looks around, sees his shadow and drops down below the ground before rising slowly, bleary-eyed, to peer out at the jblogosphere.

is it that time, already?

ugh. stress. funerals and hospitals, because we always seem to have a bump after people come back from vacation, and speeches. speeches. speeches. meetings. meetings. meetings. with minyan and selichos thrown in for good measure. shofar practice. schedules. speeches speeches speeches. no time for the gym. no energy for the gym. a whole bunch of new community initiatives to push. nursing homes. classes, lots of classes. one-on-one learning. mincha getting earlier is bad, maariv ending earlier is good. shacharis getting darker out is bad. my sainted rebbetzin wants to know who (whom, really) to invite for meals on yom tov. i'd rather not invite anyone, the way i feel at the moment. ich bin ein grouch.

wait - where have my capital letters gone?

E-L-U-L!!!!!!!!!!

oh. there they are. wonderful. maybe they could have stayed hidden for the next five, six, seven weeks?

I think I've lost my blogging voice; I'm definitely a little hoarse.

I really just wanted to wish the world a ksiva vachasima tova, happy and healthy and you know the rest, especially because Ari asked so nicely a while back. But, while I'm at it, a few other notes:

1) Why have I not come back yet? Because a JBlogosphere without the Renegade Rebbetzin just isn't the same.
I have poked around a little and found some interesting new blogs, though. My friend over at The Rebbetzin's Husband (totally wish I had thought of that name) led me to In the Pink, which I really enjoy and which led me to Infinite Randominity, which I liked but led me nowhere.
My Shrapnel is a great read, and it led me to Coffee and Chemo, which took me to What to expect when you're not expecting, which apparently was still around when I was blogging, but I didn't know about it.

2) I've somehow gained FOLLOWERS. Me. Go figure! It's true! You can see them if you know how to find blog-followers...
Oh, all right, just click here.
This is a little silly, though, folks. I don't post here anymore. Go to the blogs I mentioned above, or the ones in my sidebar, and become their followers. Rabbis don't need or want followers.
Or we won't admit it, anyway.

3) Those sefarim I retired from the blogosphere to write? Yeah, right. Not a page complete. The time I was using for this has since been sucked up by other things... which is what always happens... אל תאמר לכשאפנה אשנה, שמא לא תפנה - Don't say, "When I have free time I will learn, lest you never have free time." You have to make it happen, and I have not made it happen.

4) What else, what else... If Sarah Palin were XY instead of XX, no one, and I mean no one, would take her seriously as a candidate. Not because of (in)experience, but because she is so far right on the big wedge issues that people would say, "Oh, great, another old white Republican male." It's only the fact that she's a woman that has put this in play; the men are just eating this up.

I'm sure there's other stuff I've thought of posting over the past 6, 7 months... Rubashkin, of course, and the Jblogger convention... but I'm really not likely to start the blog up again. There is nothing to see here; move along.

But make sure to do tshuva. And may we be inscribed for a happy, healthy new year.

*yawn*