ALERT! : Okay, folks, there will be a new piece here either Monday or Tuesday; I've written it and it'd be on today, but I am working now and I don't think the powers that be would approve of my using office time to work on my personal blog. So hang on just a little bit longer. In the meantime, go over to Akaky's Amateur Photos Inc. and enjoy some of the new pictures I just put up there.

Brazilian Independence Day has come and gone, and no, I do not have anything new to post, although I am working on something. In the meantime, there is the young lady to the left, who is much more pleasing to the eye than anything I could write here