Flutterby™! : I'm back, sort of

Many of you may have noticed a recent jump in my postings. A little while back I was contemplating leaving cyberspace altogether. After a good eight months of not checking email every day, not having a running desktop (or a desk for that matter), I seem to be re-entering cyberspace. This time I'm a student and a geek in a GIS Lab. But the direction I'm going in (cartography), hopefully, will take me futher away from computers. What I'm hoping to do is remove myself from the computers-for-computers-sake world and just use the damned things as tools. Despite the fact that cartography is a heavily computerized field, there is still significant field work that goes on. Hopefully, I'll be able to steer myself in that direction...