AS PROMISED, I’M BACK: A nice drive from Nashville, then a nice dinner at home (I made pasta). I felt sorry for the poor students in the Bar Review course — I well remember that studying for the bar combined stress and excruciating boredom in a fashion that nothing else has equalled.

I didn’t even try to surf from the Sheraton last night — and not really today. I opened the laptop up in the lobby and started picking up a wireless network named “Sheraton,” but the signal was very weak and intermittent. The hotel staff had no idea what I was talking about when I asked — they kept pointing me to the “business center,” where there was no wireless coverage at all. I finally found a place on the mezzanine level where the signal was strong enough, but I never did figure out where the coverage was supposed to be centered. Weird.