Allow me to re-introduce myself.  I've been gone for almost (gulp) three years.  I can hardly believe how fast the time has passed.  For those of you who had the expectation that, as I promised in my first post, this would be a weekly blog, I apologize.  For those of you who had no expectation that I would fulfill my commitment to post new and wonderful insights, anecdotes, wimsical musings and such, thanks for being you.  Afterall, where there's no expectation, there is no disappointment--only pleasant surprises.  But wait...pleasant surprises imply that there existed an expectation.  Hmm.  So, where there is no expectation at all, there is...apathy?  I wonder if it's possible to live a meaningful life without expectations.  Is it possible to purge ourselves of expectations, or do we merely manage them?