Attempting to Get Back in the Saddle

I have been gone for almost two weeks,counting picking the Progeny up from the Cities. In that time, I have had access to the internet but generally on a dial-up and on someone else's schedule. Throw in being completely off my routine and I ended up with being information deficient. My cell phone finally registered a call on the 29th that had been made on the 24th, just to give an example of how far gone I was. So I'm back and will get back into the saddle, as the title says.

A quick comment on the South's version of a "gluttonous" sin, Sonic Drive-ins. Family members salivated verytime we passed by one of them. There were groans regarding hamburgers and lime (or lemon, I can't remember)/cherry slushes. We finally stopped at one on New Year's Eve and had some of their delights. Verdict: Ok but the cheese coneys were not on par with any on Cincy's finest nor did the slush come close to a Culver's lemon ice. To each his own.