After months and months (and months--sweet mercy, I'm obnoxious) of whining about my inability to get any corn meal in this country, someone finally located some for me in an Indian grocery store.  It's a bit different from the stuff back home, but it gets the job done, which means I got to sit here tonight sharing corn muffins with the Big Dog.  And now the recipe is up, so you can follow suit.  Enjoy.

Look, I know.  I KNOW.  I've been absolutely ghastly with my updates of late and there is no good excuse.  Well, actually, I've got a whole bucketful of excuses, I'm just not sure any of them are good.

 

The long and the short of it is that I've taken on too many projects and life-tweaks of late and not enough of them work well in blog format, so my site has been knocked way down on my priority list.  What I need to do is figure out a way to make some of my recent work link up to this site and finally get off of my figurative ass as it pertains to my writing.  I just haven't been feeling it of late.  I've been doing more gardening and jewellery making, which apparently sucks up all the need for a creative outlet, I guess.  

 

But!  No more excuses--there will be new content up on a more regular basis or my name isn't Tom Dinglemeyer Schmitline.  I have some SS365 blogs that still need to be moved over, some new recipes, and I'll get to work on some new journal posts just as soon as I knock out a couple of academic projects.  Apologies, apologies, and double apologies for not at least having a good story to cover my poor performance.  I'll work on that, too. 

 

Oh, and on the geekery side of things:  I've removed the Twitter feed in an attempt to stop this slow-loading problem that has been plaguing the front page.  Honestly, of late, I've been doing less 'static' tweeting, so it's just where all the updated links for new material goes anyway, which...if you're here, you probably already know what's new.  Except for the Etsy stuff--follow me on Twitter if you want to know when new jewellery is being listed.  You can follow me on Twitter here.  Alternately, you can RSS my Etsy feed here. 

 

I am also just now remembering that I never got around to fixing the stupid broken Login box (remember how it used to be a pretty compact slider that combined all the registered users' links in one convenient place?  yeah, I almost can't either), so I'll take a look at that as soon as I can. 

 

I'm on it, peeps.  I'm on it.