I blinked and the baby is now 4, and the toddler is now 6, and my loonnggg commute was every bit as miserable as I'd expected. Thanks to a reduction-in-force, my commute is now 10 minutes vs. an hour. I'm working at a new location, the boys are in school- pre-school and kindergarten, J is still mixing loud/angry punk bands, the cat died, the dog got fat, and I totaled my car. That about sums things up except that somewhere during the past 4 years, I also forgot that I started a blog.