I almost forgot: yesterday was this blog’s eighth anniversary. If you’ve been reading me for that long, or even for a substantial portion of those eight years, I’m quite frankly astonished: I’ve covered a lot of ground in that time, and the focus of my blogging has changed with my interests. When you add new interests and hobbies, diving into them wholeheartedly each time, as often as I do, you know you run the risk of trying the patience of your regular readers. A few of which, apparently, I have. Not many — most of you, I believe, are coming here from search results — but enough to keep doing this.

So … what should I write about next?