I've written two lengthy, entertaining posts and then somehow lost them in the bowels of my computer. Not that my computer has bowels, mind you. But somewhere between trying to add a picture and messing with saving drafts I've lost the details of me struggling with the hardest book I've ever written, only to emerge triumphant, not to mention a discussion of craziness and food and the secrets to the universe, now gone forever.

But I figure I'll try once more and if it screws up I'll beat my hea...