Wild Card/Monday — 9.21.09

I’m back from my weeklong furlough during which I entirely stayed away from Huckleberries Online for four days. Yeah, I went through withdrawals. But an afternoon sitting in 80-plus-degree temperatures on Cannon Beach helped with the tremors. As some of you know, this blog reading and commenting can be addictive. We learned just before our return trip home from Portland Sunday afternoon that a good friend of ours committed suicide over the weekend. I’m processing that today. It’s good to be back with you and return to some normalcy of schedule. Now, for your Wild Card …