2008: Turning the Crank

I turned my work brain off somewhere around my last post (December 21) and spent the past two weeks playing with my kids, spending time with my wife, cooking (and eating) great meals and catching up with friends and family. It was great to tune out for a while, but now I’m sitting in front of my keyboard feeling like a Model A owner who needs to wade through the mud to the front of his car and turn the crank handle to try to get it restarted…