Daniel Johnston’s “Hi, how are you” mural, an Austin Landmark. From Flickr user “an agent’s” CC-licensed photo, “fine, thanks.“

Hi, how are you?

I’m OK. Actually, I’m feeling a little ill. And I was sick a few weeks ago, and one of my kids was sick. Nothing serious or anything. Just disruptive. I even missed a conference in Denver where I was supposed to speak, so that was frustrating.

Assuming I manage to recover from this latest thing and assuming that no one else in my family succumbs to some other vile illness, I’ll be heading off for a vacation that will last until the end of the month. So you probably won’t see me around here until July 1st or so.

And that’s OK, because sometimes life trumps blogging, and all that. (Not all the time. I have read some blogs in the last month where people were chronicling some very tough times, and I feel touched that they wanted to share that with the world. It seems that sometimes life could use a good blog.)

But before I took off, I just wanted to check in. I haven’t been posting much lately, but I don’t feel exactly like my beloved nerdboy Josh who says he’s bored with “Libraryland,” if not libraries and librarians themselves.

With me, it’s a little different. I’m still pretty excited by Libraryland, it’s just that the thnigs I’m excited about haven’t lent themselves to blogging. And sometimes the mind is willing but the fingers are weak. I have longish essays and reports I plan to dump on you later this summer, but I haven’t had the impetus to get them done. Perhaps in July. Perhaps before the third blogversary in August.

A few more thoughts before I go:

• If you are going to ALA Annual (I’m not; enjoy Anaheim), keep an eye out for the Library Society of the World. By their black and gold ribbons, you will know them (actual ribbon may differ from ribbon in photo, subject to availability, see LSW geeks at ALA for details). Join the LSW California Dreaming Team and make good on my boast in this comment.
• I might update Twitter while I’m away. Then again I may not. Sorry that I’m not really adding any new Twitter buddies, but I have kind of reached the breaking point there. Of course, that doesn’t matter much when the site is never actually working.
• I started a Tumblr blog. It has been fun so far, no promises that I’ll keep it up.

But enough about me. How are you?