Hi. It’s been—well, it’s been a while. And that sucks, but I’ve been up to other things and as much I’d like to come back and restart Aural Times just like it was, there’s about ten straight months or so of evidence to the contrary.

But I’m trying to come back. It’s going to be different, in a lot of ways, but my hope is there’ll be music rolling off this site—and into your feedreader or your iPod—again, and soon, and regularly.

In the mean time, I’m working on the guts of a redesign, and I need a test post that’s different in some under-the-hood ways that aren’t visible to you, the reader, and that’s what this is. So forgive me if it’s not much to look at; I’m hoping that by this time next week, there’ll be a lot more to see.

In the interim, some things will almost certainly look a bit broken—different things at different times—and for that I apologize, but since the front page hasn’t changed in about 300 days, I figure a few bumps for the next 5-10 shouldn’t bother anyone too much.

And, in the spirit of things, find attached a song I wrote about snakes recently.

(Things are broken enough that you may or may not even be able to reach the song from this page normally. So, hey: here’s a direct link in the mean time!)