It’s a balmy 11ºF with almost no wind, allowing me to remain on the porch with my (china, not stoneware) mug of (organically & shade grown, fair trade, Guatemalan roast) coffee warming my hands, and helping my brain fire on all synapses.

Daisy did not spend the night here last night—she’s in the “dog-house” at her (as she calls it) “Boardmanpack” home, for her antics on the computer yesterday. I think I am in the dog house (a little) as well for not practicing computer security, and thus giving the little critter on-line access.

I’m a little jealous of her, though. At last count, Daisy’s post has garnered 14 comments—our blog averages but 5.4 comments/post! It appears that good looks trumps age & wisdom every time—I don’t know if I’ll tell the boys at the café this.

This is an obvious segue into “comments” as related to our blog. We view ourselves as hosting an informative blog, from the point of view of the “working class,” who populate the coffee shop, and when the conversation goes in a direction that we feel is of interest to the AR community, we will post that conversation. We also view ourselves as hosting a social blog. We value your visits, the counter tells us we have many visitors, but doesn’t tell us who has visited. We also value your comments—even if they have no direct bearing on the post. Just inside the door on my cyber-porch, there is freshly brewed coffee of any variety you might desire, and at the coffee-shop there is an unlimited supply of virtually any beverage you may find appealing. So if you stop by—let us know, we’re glad to have you!

In the interest of full disclosure: Yes, in addition to the above, this is a blatant attempt to increase our comment/post average!

BTW: some of our associates may have noticed that we sometimes let you know we’ve visited by our sometimes irreverent and irrelevant comments.