No, the rain hasn’t been around for a little while.  Today we’ve been having quite a wind storm, and it killed the power.  I’ve been sitting here with kerosene lanterns and cooked dinner over a fire.  But now the power is back again (for now, at least), so I can chat with adorable 25-year-old dragons and look forward to re-setting all my clocks again.

Slow internet connection is not good…

Whoops!  I’ve had an error on my work email signature for the last 12 months!

Sounds like fun.

What, have all your work e-mails been going out with “Smerk, The Dragon of Delight” on them?

No, I had 1991 instead of 1911 down in our phone number.

So it was saying, “For a Good Time, call Smerk the Dragon of Delight at blah-blah-1991”, instead of 1911 like it should?  Oh dear, how disappointing to all your admirers.

Well, it’s not worded quite like that, but yes.

Especially since I’m not that type of dragon.

You mean that you don’t like good times?

Well, I do.  But the way you’ve worded it makes it sound as though I should be working in the Red Light district.

Of course not!  You should be working in the Red Dragon District, which is much more up-scale.