This isn’t a blog post. No, really, it’s not. It’s just a note to tell you I won’t be writing a blog today, and possibly not at all this week…or the next. The Time Gods apparently read my blog last week and decided I had way too much time on my hands. So they punished me by sending me to the racetrack on Thursday for 16 hours of research and interviews for an article I’m working on; and then sent me to the barn yesterday for 10 hours and today for eight hours for another article–all of which resulted in 75 pages of crappy handwritten notes that I need to transcribe. Now don’t get me wrong…I’m thrilled to have two paying jobs that require me to write about horses. But even I have my limits. Add to this an essay that I have to write to meet an end-of-week deadline and news on my arrival home tonight that Noah has a 103-degree fever…and we’re leaving town Thursday.

I know I will garner little sympathy from you, my gentle readers, given that I am simply getting what I deserve after tallying up my free time like a British monarch. But the downside of all this is that the blog gets neglected. And for that, you have my apologies.

I’ll be back–soon, I hope. But know that while I’m gone, I’m thinking of you. Totally.