For those few poor souls who have been actually reading what I write... all 3 of you (including you Mom), I want to apologize for taking so long in getting a new article out. While I never promised a regular schedule from the start, its been far too long since the last one.

In that same spirit, I've finally gotten back to swimming too. Up until somewhere around Oct. or Nov. of last year I was swimming regularly 5 to 6 days a week. Then a big project hit, and another one, and the holidays, and before I knew it I was out of the habit.

Its amazing how easy it is to get off track.

While I'm not back to swimming like I was, I've been taking steps to get back on track. Likewise, I'm here writing now. Sometimes I wonder if we don't go through things like this to truly learn the lessons contained in experiences like this. Let me try to explain.

If I'm driving from North Carolina to California, one wrong turn isn't going to put me that far off track. But if I continue to make wrong turns I'm eventually going to end up in either Mexico or Canada - the two extreme "off course" locations I could end up.

Some would fret over which wrong turn finally set me on the road to Mexico and off the road to California. I wonder if that really matters as much as realizing "oh, this is the wrong way" and changing my direction.

There's more to my musings, and I'm sure there is a books worth of exposition that could be wrought from my analogy, but I haven't hashed it all out my self. Maybe we'll see more later.

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