Aye, I'm Back

Your faithful correspondent has returned from an enjoyable, productive, enentful, and exhausting trip to Scotland. I am in the process of trying to catch up (when my head hit the pillow last night I had been awake for more than 43 hours straight thanks to chaotic travel circumstances in Heathrow). Give me some time and I'll be back to my intermittently useful observations of the world surrounding us. When I do write I'll be focusing most of my time on the crisis in Zimbabwe at the Africa blog.