Greetings, earthlings

Hi folks, I figured it was about time I showed my face again. I'm sorry for the long delay, but things did not go quite as planned around here. We arrived in Logan, Utah on June 1st, as planned. However, not as planned, the truck containing all our junk, er, stuff, did not show up until June 3rd due to a sudden illness on the part of the driver. We also got snow that first week we were here, making the whole thing a rather surreal experience. On June 16, I made a Wal-Mart run (because you *need* tons of stuff from Wal-Mart after moving a family of 6 cross-country). A light up ahead turned red, the people in front of me stopped, so it seemed like a good idea at the time for me to stop, too. Unfortunately, the guy behind me didn't think that stopping was such a great idea. Witnesses said that his brake lights never came on. I was doing 0 MPH. He hit me doing an estimated 40 MPH. (It turns out that he was reading a piece of paper lying on his passenger seat, rather than watching where he was steering his large van.) My car was totaled, pretty much every vertebrae in my neck and back was jolted out of alignment, and I had various other bruises and scrapes. I spent the summer in physical therapy, and falling asleep at odd times because of the powerful pain killers I was on. I have spent the fall playing catch-up, due to not getting a bunch of stuff done this summer that I was planning on having accomplished. That has left me no time for hobbies, including XEmacs. In any case, the light at the end of the tunnel is starting to become visible. I'm hoping that I can manage a return to something resembling activity on XEmacs around the new year. If anything urgent has come up that I am responsible for, please let me know and I'll try to work it in before then. Otherwise, look for me to resubscribe to the mailing lists around then. Best regards to you all, -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor Email: Jerry.James(a)usu.edu Computer Science Dept. Web: http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University