Well, I've discovered FaceBook...but that's still no excuse

...because I still love my blog, more.

I can say more of what I'm thinking, I think the comments are more personal, and people who check it, whether or not they comment, are people who truly care about us and don't just want a quick voyeuristic view.

Still, Life with Spectre is hard to update, because I can't bring my hard-drive full of pictures into the place where I work, and I frankly despise posts without "art".

So, I thought, well, I'll prepare a whole bunch of posts and put them in the queue...and when I get to a place where I can bring my personal computer, I'll post them all (kind of like a squirrel storing up its walnuts all winter) based on a pre-set schedule I can set up in Blogger.

So that's what I'm going to do. :)

I will be doing what my friend Pam did for a long time on her blog - posting "catch up" posts about what has happened in the past. And it will all be ok, because we have so many adventures rolled up in all of those pictures.

We'll be here in Qatar or Afghanistan (at least I will be) through mid-June, so the posts won't be filled with news beyond the occasional opening sentence, but at least they'll catch you up on what we did and what I just haven't blogged about 'til now.

And to start it off, even though Arms will run for his vomit bag, I'll slide in a picture of us in Scotland in June of '07, outside of Loch Torridon, where John took me on a hike in some of the most beautiful country I've ever SEEN, presented me with a gorgeous channel-set diamond ring, and asked me to marry him all over again.

And, because he is the Man of my Life, I said You Bet.

So there ya go, yo.