I have been away for quite some time now. That statement is rather misleading. I have not physically been away, as my blog exists within the realms of cyberspace, and my computer, from which I have not been away for any extended period of time, is my portal of access to said realms. I have not mentally been away, as I have been thinking of my blog, of things I might write in my blog, of who might be reading my blog and wondering why the underground seems so vacant. I have not been emotionally away from my blog, as I have been thinking, as I habitually do, of the matters which I normally address, directly or not, in my blog. So really I haven't been away at all; I just have not made my presence known.