Well, OK, considering that it was about two weeks ago that I said that I wasn’t on hiatus, despite appearances to the contrary, and that I haven’t posted anything since, I suppose I’m more or less on hiatus.

I hadn’t intended to be; I’ve just had no interested in writing anything for last couple of weeks. I’ve spent the last month putting the finishing touches on the project that’s consumed most of my time for the last year, and though the last week or so have been fairly relaxed I simply haven’t had any creative juices left over at all.

I’m rather hoping that I won’t remain at such a low ebb for much longer; but it’s moot for at least the next week, because Monday morning I’m off on another business trip.

I expect to get this month’s Ex Libris Reviews on-line sometime this weekend (such as it is; I reviewed very few books this month), but that may be it until after I get back.

No, not really; I was just on a business trip to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, for a week. A well-timed week, actually; I flew out there on Monday, the day after all of the tornados (over a hundred in one day in the Midwest) and flew home yesterday, the day before another major storm was due to roll in.

Anyway, I’m back.

I finally got my first piece of comment spam on this new blog yesterday. Or, rather, the first that got through the built-in spam filter. I hope that this isn’t a preview of coming attractions…..

…to whoever it was who hit the tipjar yesterday. You didn’t leave your name, but you have our gratitude.

I’d like to formally apologize for the length of the period of time during which posts on the previous incarnation of this blog appeared to offer the possibility of making comments while in fact preventing everyone from doing so.

Ahem.

These problems do not apply to the new, improved View From The Foothills. You don’t need to login; you don’t need to jump through hoops; if you want to leave a comment, just click on “comments” and (if you’re a human being) you can do so.

I realize that I’m being a bit inconsistent to encourage people to comment after months and months of training them not to. Ah, well.

…to see if my off-line blogging app is can talk to my new blog.

…for now. I may have to spend some more time on the template later on.

…I’ll no doubt be changing it repeatedly over the next couple of days. In the meantime, try not to let it get you down.

My web hosting service provides automatic installation of WordPress; and they’ve just added automatic upgrading as well, when new versions of WordPress come out. I’m sick to death of MovableType’s susceptibility to spam of various kinds, so I’m going to give WordPress a try.