The question of whether I’d be able to keep up my posting schedule on this series during Christmas vacation finally resolved itself for me tonight, when I realized that no, I haven’t a snowball’s chance in Hell of keeping it on track. So be it known that a hiatus herein begins, hopefully concluding with a new post on the 29th.

The real kicker of this time-out, by the way, is that while I’ll never able to find the time on my current schedule to post this Sunday, I did manage over the last couple days to write yesterday’s post. But just before I was about to hit “Publish”, I flipped through I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist and realized I made the one error from which I’ve struggled to abstain since beginning this series: I got ahead of the book. I mean way, way ahead of the book. I’d jumped into stuff from Chapters 13-14, to be specific. D’oh.

So after thinking it over, I decided I’ll just store the post and hope I can salvage some of the hours of work I put in it when the chapters roll around.

(sigh)

Ah, well.

1. For the past few months, Google Reader has been refusing to show the full text of articles in the RSS feed. To solve that annoyance, I’ve changed the feed address. The old one will still work, but it won’t show the full text. To view the full text, you’ll want to unsubscribe from our site and re-subscribe to the new address http://feeds.feedburner.com/MinorThoughts.

2. You know how some sites have that cool feature that lets you get notified by email when a new comment is added to a post that you commented on? Now we have that too. We also added threaded comments a little bit ago, so our comments are now twice as snazzy as they were at this time last year.

3. And, by popular request (all one of them), we’ve added the name of the post’s author to the top of the post. Now you can know what to expect before you start reading the article. True, this does ruin the element of surprise. But it might help you avoid mental whiplash when I finally come out of hiding and post something new.

Now, in case I don’t see you, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, and Good Night!

Jenna’s last entry in the Intra Madison Immigration Debate was posted on June 9. That means I’m almost a month late responding. Yikes!

Sorry, Jenna. I do have a response, but it’s not written yet. I’ll do my best to post a response by the end of this weekend, but no promises. Things have been crazy lately. It looks like life is finally slowing down again, but I’ve been mistaken before…