Where's Waldo?

I know what you're thinking.

First the Bush administration admits to spying on U.S. citizens by using the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on private telephone calls and email...

... and then Rob suddenly disappears, his blog eerily quiet.

Well, fret not. I'm not being held as an enemy combatant at Gitmo. (Not yet, anyway.)

Rather, my prolonged silence is due to a family emergency. For health reasons my father has to abandon his beloved New Orleans and return to New York, where he can live closer to his family. (Also beloved, I should add.)

The move will be a fairly complicated one. So I, as the spouseless and childless sibling, volunteered to travel South and help my Dad make the transition back home.

Which means, obviously, that I have had to postpone my trip back to Guatemala. Thankfully my coworkers have been incredibly understanding and wonderfully supportive. Also, through the miracle of modern technology, I've been able to "telecommute" each morning, and update the Incidencia Democrática homepage from the comfort of our living room couch.

The only difficulty, in fact, has been finding time to work my homepage. It'll probably be hit-and-miss for awhile. I apologize for that, and ask for your patience. Hopefully everything should be back to normal (as close as this website ever gets to "normal" anyway) in roughly one month.

Here's what the near future looks like:

Jan. 24th: Travel to New Orleans... help Dad pack & etc.

Feb. 15th: Return to Guatemala City.

I share this information with you in the hope that some of you will email me occasionally to remind me where the heck I am. Because I'm fairly certain that I'll be waking up every morning asking myself that very question!

Tags: Guatemala, New York, New Orleans, Dad, Incidencia Democrática