I’d like everyone to give a nice, warm welcome to this blog’s first Second Author: Adeodatus. You know him and love him from his own blog (at least you should), but now an inclusive content-sharing agreement has made his work available at TimBerglund.com as well! Prepare to witness creative and analytic synergy the sheer magnitude of which you can now only scarcely imagine. (Hint: by “sheer magnitude” I mean that -ln|synergy| is large. It is a truly remarkable magnitude.)

Bear with him as he learns the ropes of Movable Type. In fact, as a test, Adeodatus, why don’t you add something to this post? You should have the necessary permissions to do that.

While you’re waiting to hear from him, you should nip over to his place and check out his review of Polar Express. First-rate stuff. I mean, I’m going to skip the movie now.

Sorry to disappoint, but I’ll have no big roundup of the Bash. The weekend has been reasonably merciless, and there has been no time for writing. The week is now underfoot, requiring me to be extremely brief.

Briefly, huge thanks need to go Andy, Steve, Walter, and Zomby for their efforts in organizing the event and providing refreshments. Zomby was typically warm and gracious, and Andy was typically unlike his online persona (that is, pretty much the same as Zomby). Also a shout-out is owed to Darren for the original contact with the Denver Press Club, which turned out to be a very nice venue. (Some have pointed out that it was loud, but I hardly think this was the Press Club’s fault.)

I appreciated–and I am not making this up–the opportunity to get inside Jeralyn’s head a little bit. It really isn’t every day that I get to talk to such a passionate defense attorney. I’m not sure how we could have much less in common, but as a wise man once said, we can still be friends.

Jed says he talked too much. I really didn’t think so, but I was grateful for the bit of talking we were able to do together.

I also met big-timers Andrew Olmsted, Ed Driscoll, and Gary Farber. Contrary to Gary’s post, it turns out I wasn’t drunk, wasn’t weeping, and didn’t apostatize, but man, that guy is prolific and quick on the draw to boot.

There was of course more, but I did say this would be brief. Hopefully Adeodatus will add a contribution soon.

You’d never call it “slight” if you knew how long it look me, but it’s done for now. The date graphics still need some help, and I didn’t get my portrait integrated yet, but it’ll do.

Also note the RMBB 3.0 link. Incredibly, Mrs. Berglund had something on the calendar before the RMBB was scheduled a month ago, so my attendance will be conditioned on whether I can rig up overnight babysitting or not. I think all will be well.

As always, it’s good to be home! There is much to say and at least a dozen picture worth publishing. It’ll probably be a week or so before I have things in a publishable state, but I’m on the job.

Blogging will be light for the next few days as I readjust to normal life.

Well, this was unexpected. We nevertheless took the train out of Madrid yesterday morning as planned. All is well. More news to follow.

Things are running well enough here that I decided to jump the Blogger ship and move to TimBerglund.com full-time. Much remains to be done with the template, features, etc., but I need to make the move now, or I never will.

Anothe busy day is in store tomorrow, so no big promises on blogging volume. I’m out all morning and all evening, so it’ll be light if it happens at all. And don’t worry; I’ll tape Average Joe 2 so I can give you the trenchant analysis you’ve come to expect. No later than Wendesday morning, D.V.