A little late, but Happy New Year everyone! I guess the holiday season is finally over, and it's time to get back to the regular routine...for the most part. I'm finally over my knee injury, and pretty much back to normal on that front, however, I'm heading out of town to visit some family for a few days, so look for regular updates again starting around the 8th again. I'm looking forward to getting back in the routine of regular blogging and such, so I'll hear from you all again next week!

I hope everyone's having a nice holiday season. Things are looking up on the knee injury front, so maybe I can actually get back to regular posting here!

First off, before I get to updating today(hopefully...anyone else having problems with super slow publishing lately on blogger?), I wanted to sincerely thank my girlfriend, Jessica, and Gary David for getting together and getting me a signed copy of The Orion Zone for Christmas. That was a wonderful and thoughtful gift! I'll certainly be reviewing it right here in a couple of weeks along with two other books.

Hopefully, I'll also be submitting at least one, and hopefully more, article(s) in the last month of the Book of ThoTH competition. Only one month left, so if you're thinking of writing something, hurry up and get it in!

Fear not! I haven't abandoned the blog here. Between the injury and the holidays, things have just been a bit hectic. However, I do have some things coming up soon. I'm currently trying to dig into three books, each of which I'll do a review of here as soon as I can.

I also have a guest blog from someone I've previously ripped, Matthew Graeber, coming up as soon as we finish a little last second formatting.

Good news and bad news on the knee injury. The MRI says there's nothing that requires surgery, so that's a big positive. On the other hand, 8 days after hurting it it's still swollen and bruised, so they won't release me to any work that involves anything more than sitting in a chair all day. So, I got some new pain pills, and I'm supposed to go back to the doctor's office next Friday...

Anyway, I promise to update the blog over the weekend, so check back in.

Thanks for the well wishes folks. It's very kind, and very appreciated. I'm off for my MRI in a few minutes here, but check out author Gary David's blog while I'm posting irregularly. He recently updated it for the first time in a while(he's also got his main site). Also don't forget, the new edition of his book The Orion Zone: Ancient Star Cities of the American Southwest is now out, so pick up a copy for the holidays. Gary's a good guy, and everything he writes seems to be very intelligent and insightful, so I'm sure you'll enjoy the book.

I'm also working on getting a guest blog written by someone who I've actually ripped a little bit here before, so that could be something interesting coming up, too!

Sorry for the sporadic updates lately. Truth be told, I hurt my right knee and between trying to hassle with the people at work, and the prescribed pain pills, I'm having a hard time finding the brain power to do much of anything at the moment. I have an MRI tomorrow night, and with any luck I'll be as good as I get shortly thereafter, so bear with me!