I’ve been missing in action, I know. I’ll write all about the following when I get more than a couple of minutes.

1. Quick trip to the Alabama shore for J’s family reunion
2. Visit from my cousin A
3. Halloween/Samhain festivities
4. Making some calls to remind progressive voters in swing races to vote (Moveon.org)
5. Catching up on the hundreds of backlogged emails
6. Preparing for a trip to see some of my family and friends in Massachusetts
7. Helping J to meet his end-of-month book deadline – permissions, scanning, reformatting, endnotes – and trying to keep household things from sliding any worse than they already are under those deadline conditions.

Um. I think that’s it, other than some household repair things (too tedious to get into) and the sorts of things (sleeping, brushing teeth, etc.) that you have to do – and which take up time – but that don’t “count” on a list like this.

I didn’t even have a chance to make my usual Halloween page. Boo.

When I get a little breathing room, I’ll post a couple of pics, and fill in some details. I suspect the blogging will be a bit light until that book gets turned in, though – so just in case I get completely overwhelmed, I’d better say this one thing to all you American progressives, populists, greens, democrats – oh heck, anyone to the LEFT of Attila the Hun:

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!