I'm not sure why, but it seems to be a general rule in life that when you go on vacation all sorts of other unrelated stuff pops up that you have to deal with at the same time. I am back from vacation (which was relaxing -- while I did watch Trump's primetime speech last Thursday, I also ignored all news and headlines for four days straight, which is my idea of a good vacation from work!). But the other unrelated stuff had piled up, so I spent today dealing with some of it. Because of this, I had no time to write a new column today. My apologies.

I may have to take off one or more days in the next few weeks to finish dealing with everything, but I am going to make the effort to at least provide new Friday columns from now on. Again, my apologies for having all my "in real life" stuff impact my columns here, but it truly was unavoidable. Mea culpa.

-- Chris Weigant

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