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OK - it's been a long time since my last post. I feel like I should be telling about all the momentous things that have been happening in my life that have kept me from posting, but all I can offer is a kind of wimpy "haven't gotten around to it."

I'll start out again with something light that has been a perpetual annoyance for me (and probably most of the population who drink cold drinks) since the beginning of time. You probably were wondering why, in the middle of the summer, I'm posting something about a phenomenon that occurs in midwinter after a really big snowstorm. Well, read on.

Why is it that when you're having a cold drink with ice cubes (or ice crescents or whatever they call those things that the icemaker in the refrigerator produces) and you're really really thirsty and urgently need to ingest high volumes of cold liquid refreshment, that's when those ice cubes (or ice crescents) decide to line up in just the right way in front of your lips so you can only get a small trickle of your drink, if even that? You can stir them around and try to sneak up on another part of the top of the glass, but the ice always manages to get in there and block the flow. Life can really be a drag sometimes.