Not back to regular scheduled programming...

First off, let me apologize to regular Old Man Blog readers for the bitter tone of the last two posts. I stand by the accuracy of the accounts, but on re-reading they seemed to me to be unnecessarily harsh. Though I will confess to a LOT of frustration with this sort of thing over the last few months, I have been treated well by most everyone involved and so the level of bitter humor seems to me disproportionate to my actual experience and treatment.

To be totally truthful, I have been treated w