Prodigal poster returns

Sorry for the hiatus, if anybody still checks this, but things have been pretty domestic/less-than-swashbuckling of late.  I've been TCOB here at home and keeping myself available for whatever might present itself regarding that prospective interview in Houston.  This week will be the last week I might likely be contacted for that, if what I've read about a 2-week notice is actually true (I read it on the internet...).  In general, things are the same as years past.  The big question to be answered was and is: What's next? 

Best of luck to us all in 2013.

“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”
~Thomas Paine, The American Crisis