An apology, plus a note on comments in the black hole...

(Tim) Good readers, I apologize for two posts that were auto-posted this morning before they were complete. Andrew Henry's been in the trunk line for way too long and I was excited to see he had completed his post, only to see that, actually, he hadn't (as some of you noted in the comments). I'd set dates on many incomplete posts many months ago and when that date rolled around--October 31st, today--the posts went up automatically. Sorry. Shut up. My brain hurts. Sorry...

Andrew's promised he'll be back with his finished post, along with pics of his craftmanship (custom basses) very soon. We wait with baited breath.

The second post that went up unintentionally was "Historical markers..." In this case, though, I'm going to leave it up hoping readers will bring it to completion.

Finally, some (regrettably including the eminent Bill Mouser) continue to have problems with their comments getting pulled aside by TypePad's spaminator...

Sorry, but there's nothing I can do about it. And because I'm not on the blog all the time, I won't necessarily catch the mistake. So please tell me about it. If you post a comment and, after fifteen minutes or so, you don't see it up, please send me an e-mail. When you let me know, I'll check to see if it's in the spaminator queue. If so, I can override it and post it myself.

The one problem with that is that it will be posted according to the time you wrote it, originally, rather than the time I do the override. This means it will be up the line a bit from the latest comments and may not even appear on the home page list of comments. The fix for this?

Get my attention, then post the comment once more. Likely the spaminator will eat your comment again, but this time I'll be watching and approve it immediately, making your pearls appear as the latest and bestest.

Thanks for your patience.