Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Where have we been?

Suddenly, the season starts and the blog disappears.

What happened?

I feel I need to offer a bit of an explanation to a sudden disappearance and lack of updates.

First, my day job suddenly began consuming a tremendous amount of time for the month of April, and I didn't have the time to rummage through stories and post them -- heck, I didn't have time to *read* them.

Second, I spent the first two weeks of May in China adopting my son, and returned in time to get to Indy for second-weekend qualifying and the race. All blog sites were blocked in China, so I couldn't post if I had tried.

That, and other sites (most notably Is It May Yet?) basically began doing what this site was attempting to do, only better and updated more quickly, and the urgency to update was gone.

If there is sufficient response, I will get the daily news updates and occasional commentaries going again this summer. If there isn't, I'll toss out a commentary or two.

While you're at it, you might want to read this piece of race coverage from a writer I know pretty well. They didn't post the notebook I wrote online, so I might eventually post it here.