Why I'm Not Answering the Phone - updated

Or bothering with text messages, responding to emails, returning phone calls, reading FAXes or even letting Luke out in the morning:


I've literally been waiting for this book for years. I mean, years. And finally it came in today's mail.


"This book now published will forever tell of a few exciting years and of a time when great men battled with great elephants in a wild corner of Africa, and the mighty Nile will forever thunder over the Fola Rapids."

My goodness.

Well now you know I'd never just sit back and ignore either the phone or any text messages ... answering the phone is how I ended up at 8 AM in the backyard this morning, whacking bamboo with a machete so DJ could finish up his reflecting pool.

The final result really looks good, too. Definitely worth all the time and trouble he's put into it.