29 July 2005 - This is like coming up from the deep end of the pool after a long dive.

I'm not sure how you feel about it but I feel as though I've been gone a very long time.

All of a sudden, I am being visited by spirit familiars, butterflies. There are too large black ones and one gold one who visit me all the time these days. You've never seen a black-winged butterfly? I have.

Ron, my housemate and host here in North Carolina, says that I should think of my absence as my ''time in the wilderness.''

He was talking about that "prophet" stuff ("A prophet is never loved in his own country"), like I am one. Yeah right.

But while we're doing stream of consciousness and you wait to see an actual Web site, his wilderness reference was not far off. I live in the woods.

Oh -oh! Wait! It's only seconds before you go to the "real" G21.

Let me ask you a question. How can anything be real when it's on a ethereal medium like this one? Just asking..

I'm supposed to stop talking now. You see, if I'm the "cool" Web designer that I claim to be, you'll be transported to the real G21 any second now. But what if I'm not as hot as I think I am? (Bogey, you just used hot and cool --opposing ideas -- as metaphors for our Web design skills in the same paragraph, let alone thought pattern. You're fired!) In that case, you should click your little mousey here. Cheers!