Andrew J. Lederer

Well, I'm a-headin' west, where a man can go as far as his wits and his shootin' iron will take him. In other words, I'll be visiting my father in Tucson, Arizona, where gray-haired Jews who don't like the humidity of Florida spend the winter. That means I'll be able to blog regularly again -- for a short while, anyway. My computer's still down and, just like yesterday, I'm writing this on my phone. However, I'm using mobile Gmail rather than the phone's text message function, so at least I can compose and send in one clump rather than in multiple minuscule increments. I've only a cheap, phone keypad, though, so it's still a pain in the ass. In fact, I gotta go 'cause the predictive text on this phone is going crazy. It seems to be wanting to write its own blog post, which could be more interesting than mine but this is MY blog, so the mechanism and I are acting at cross-purposes. When next you hear from me, I'll be in the land of ten-gallon hats and dance hall girls (unless I'm killed in a plane crash or something). Until that happy time when we're all eatin' beans together at the cyber-chuckwagon again -- so long, pardners. (By the way, I hadda do this in TWO clumps.) Andrew