yeah: Signal! (go go go!)
Also: sorry for the constant state of delay. This is the first opportunity to be on a computer I have had for a while. This includes writing of any sort.
On the plus side, the enrgy I spend here has gone into my workout, parenting, husbandry, creative cooking with beans and meat (and not making chili), and I've discovered that there's this bizarre.... space outside my apartment, between it and my work, that is filled with bipedal creatures and box-like areas called "stores". It seems to be powered by a great golden light/heat source in the up-place (the only thing up there, it seems), such that when it goes they go dark. I'd thought them all the shiny walls of this open-air dungeoncrawl I've been living in. Disappointingly, when I use what skills I've learned on these boards with the people here, the GM sends goons after me, and I'm not allowed to keep any of the stuff I find.
However, there is a swing in the park nearby. When I use it, I can go up and down.
More as it develops.