Where is the Tugboat?

I'm here! I haven't left, I haven't disappeared, I haven't been abducted by the Gruber Family. I have been around, I'm just busy with other things. I just assumed that if I stopped writing then the people would stop coming to check in. I was wrong. I get more traffic when I don't write anything! Does that mean I won't post anymore, no it doesn't! I'm not sure what I've been doing with my evenings as of late, these long summer evenings. They are too hot to do anything much outside until the sun backs down. I feel like when I walk out of my Western facing deck I'm challenging the sun and eventually it backs down over the houses to find it's bed for the night. I KNOW that's not what actually happens. I am a scientist. But sometimes it's fun to think like the ancients did. Can we call them ancients yet? Is there a critical mass of years that has to pass before we can call previous generations ancient? Like how music that is twenty years old is then considered classic rock? It still boggles my mind that much of the catalog from the early 90's is now considered classic rock. I'm still rocking it normally, not classically. I guess I better switch it over to keep up with the times. Nothings stops the slow, steady march of time. GRP says he is a time traveler, going at normal speed through time. What a card that GRP, I've heard he drinks from a garden hose to gain special powers. That's an inside joke. Don't ask about it and never bring it up in front of him. NEVER. So to summarize, the Tugboat is not in the clutches of a German family of TV criminal masterminds, but has just been negligent recently. Thinking no one would notice the hiatus since readership dropped dramatically in the summer months. But they noticed. Both Duffer and Cheese mentioned that they noticed and to get it together. I had strayed from my PathQuest but I'm on the comeback trail. I doubt we'll see daily posts but I'll try to do a few a week, if I think about it. Admiral Bonesaw and Dutchie continue to insist that I need a theme or a hook. I'm not sure I want to be bound by the confines of a theme. The hook so far is to do whatever I want. Which fits nicely with my semi-selfish lifestyle. So I'm going to keep on keeping on for now. If it ain't broke and all that business. We'll see if I come back in short order, keep checking and call me out if you find unreasonable gaps.