wow, i can actually post

it has been a long time since this google-based blog program has let me post. I'll admit that i have not attempted to post much in the past few months; as of late, however, i have wanted to post and begin posting more regularly (i hear this helps the blog attendance :)
When i would attempt to post in the past few weeks, the blogger would show me this page (where one is to type a post) and then a second later it would flash to white and act like it is still thinking...an annoying thing to experience.

More importantly (but still not extremely important), I am no longer in NW Iowa. Last week i hopped into my loaded car and drove to montana. I am living in a humble abode with the one and only Jeffrey Schutter and working on the Schutter farm. Life here has been great so far and I hope to write more about my experiences here and life in general...but that will have to wait