I’ll be out of town visiting family for the next week, so blog updates (if any) will be less frequent, and I’ll be slower to answer e-mails. I made sure to cook a pot of Chicken and Andouille gumbo for Mr. Phae before I left, so he shouldn’t starve while I’m gone.
Don’t forget to send in your Arbor Day pictures!




As you may have noticed, Resto4Life has been experiencing some pretty serious slowdowns and downtime over the past week. More specifically, the cluster where my site is hosted has a borked file server, affecting not only web sites but related e-mail. Ostensibly, they’re trying to move sites from the old server to a new one and adding a third file server to help distribute the load more evenly. I can only imagine the hell in which their tech-guys are living trying to get things up and running again, having been through something similar last week. But while I’m sympathetic, it doesn’t help my readership any! I hope you can bear with me while they get things straightened out. In the mean time, why don’t you visit, read, and subscribe to one of the following great sites: