>So where have you been?

Workin'. Playin'. The usual.

>We [family] spent a week in your part of the country in August on vacation. Small little lake in a cabin with no phones or TV. It was most enjoyable.

No TV or phone... are you sure you weren't at my house? :-) In the last couple months I moved to a house still in the city but fairly isolated thanks to a couple acres of wilderness.