What a week it has been. I have been tethered to my computer doing a very labor intensive and tedious freelance job.

I have also been working on the OTBKB makeover. I was hoping to launch the new design next week but it looks like the process may take a few more weeks. Elizabeth Reagh of Good Form Design is hard at work on our new logo and programmer/web designer Veronica Paez is hard at work on the new site.

Mid-September is also the 5th anniversary of OTBKB and I must say I am in a reflective state of mind. For the past five years I have rarely missed a day of blogging. Five years. Looking back and forwards, I have been doing a lot of thinking about where I want to go from here.

That said, I am strongly committed to continuing the blog in its new, improved form.

Labor Day is the first anniversary of my father's death. This has also put me in a very melancholy mood; I am having frequent flashbacks about his last days. There is much pain in those memories and it been an extremely difficult year. The loss of my father is a pain that deepens with time.

That said, I have great memories of my father and I miss him very much.

I wasn't planning to blog this Labor Day weekend because of all the above reasons but I know that the elections are coming up and people need information! So I will be back over the next few days with news about the upcoming elections and the candidates that have been vigorously fighting for the people's votes.