(roughly) semi-annual "It's ALLIIIIIVE!" update (with bonus Muppetry)

Still here (despite appearances of invisibility). Still alive and mostly well - although one of the projects for this spring is kickstarting a long-overdue proper health care usage regimen. On the plus side, I'm very satisfied with my new semi-bionic vision; on the down side, there are half a dozen annoyance-level things that should probably be looked at...but as a person who's rarely needed to go see a doctor more than once or twice a year, I've been slow to respond to the process of becoming an Honored Citizen (which happened a few months ago on local transit-system time).

Other projects have also been moving slowly; I've been most consistent about fan-writing, and quite a few things have been started and paused. That's prompted some thoughtful self-examination...

...which has me thinking about some larger prospective changes in offline life. [Yes, I am being deliberately vague. No, I am not going to do anything dangerously stupid, at least not on purpose. Yes, this does mean I will probably continue to be partially invisible in my own online space, though I promise to try to update more often than I have, and with more interesting material than this post.]

Yes, that last sets a pretty low bar, and Statler and Waldorf and their fellow hecklers are welcome to point and laugh. I will set out a basket for the incoming fresh fruit, and a giant flyswatter to THWAP back the not-so-fresh.

In which context (and here's your nominally current-events item): why in the name of the Great Gonzo did ABC consign the recent Muppet Show revival to a sort-of-9pm timeslot? On one hand, given that they were in fact giving us a straight-up free-standing episode rather than a one-shot Prime Time Event (a thing not too well explained in the promotional run-up), I can sort of see why they didn't over-promote it. OTOH, in today's TV market you'd think a network-based Muppet Show would be IDEAL 8pm programming so as to catch as much of the all-ages audience as humanly and Muppetly possible....

Please, please, ABC: pick up the back-door pilot, and put it on at 8 when you do.