"Well, I'm back"

I've always found Sam Gamgee's words at the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy to be an excellent starting point for rebounding from the inevitable slips and pitfalls of my life. That plus Kilgore Trout's creed from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1996 novel Timequake:

You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.

So after several months of bloglessness, partly due to spending more time pet sitting than writing (and partly due to my own inertia), I am declaring myself both Back and Well.

Or something like that.