An explanation for the hiatus

As much as I love parshablogging, I have other obligations as well, and so in crunch times, I come to neglect it, since it takes a lot of time to put my ideas down in a readable, understandable form.

Among these other obligations:
Work - getting monitoring an agent to work. Showing a colleague how to make ActiveX controls in C#.
Teaching - Grading a bunch of Excel exams, creating a sample Access exam, for an Understanding Personal Computers class; Preparing lectures on Concurrency in Ada and Java for a Programming Languages class. Getting my ID for both schools, getting transcripts (from YU), letters of recommendations, to one of those schools, getting my paperwork for hiring done (I've delayed this).
School - Finishing a take-home Linguistics final. Applying for "Masters Research" at Revel so that I am a continuous student, which means going to YU and meeting with people. Try to figure out my PhD thesis and get an advisor.
Family - Making sure Meir eats enough, so that he can gain some needed wait; figure out how to get rid of the (second) mouse that moved into the closet as a result of construction next door; figure out how to get rid of the family of birds that established a nest in the air conditioner and wake up Meir every morning at 5 AM (though they have been better recently, or Meir has gotten more used to it).
Etc - ...

Anyway, I don't expect to post any new thoughts on the parsha for this week or next week.

Oh ... And the latest in the Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence files - the fact that we have not found WMDs in Iraq does not mean that they do not, or did not exist. As I have noted before, there are reasons to think they were moved to Syria. Here is a recent article in the NY Sun (Jan 2006) about this:

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

Mr. Sada's comments come just more than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria."

Democrats have made the absence of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq a theme in their criticism of the Bush administration's decision to go to war in 2003.