And so it happens that, for the first time ever, I get to send out an Out Of the Office email. It also so happens that I’m typing this on my phone, sitting on the ground next to my bike, taking advantage of the one spot in an I-don’t-know-how-many-miles radius that has cell service.

I always found Out Of the Office emails a huge waste of potential. “I’m unavailable until Wednesday?” Pffft. So boring.

“This is an automated message to alert you that the recipient of your email has been abducted by aliens. They will get back to you once we return them to their home planet… if we decide to do so. May you have a blessed day and long live the empire?” SO. MUCH. BETTER.

If you haven’t guessed that yet, this is my Out Of the Office blog post. I’ll be “out of the office” for the next two months but will attempt to write and schedule posts for you for those two months. We all shall have to wait and see if I succeed.

For now, all my love from my small patch of dirt in the middle of nowhere.

—P