mr. amit went to washington and then he came back and was incommunicado for weeks

It's true. I went to Washington D.C., and gave my two presentations at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (which wins the award for conference with the most descriptive title), and I even flew in a day early to help out at the conference's "Day of Service" which entailed a fun day of teaching residents at the country's largest homeless shelter how to refurbish computers, and then stayed several days after to complain about the precipitous drop in temperature while eating at a bunch of great D.C. restaurants with M and K (who are making their first appearance on this blog I believe, congratulations.)

And it's true that I have come back from D.C. and have not said anything about how after coming back I left my job at TechSoup and have started to contract for several startup firms and have been doing so for slightly more than half a week now and have been doing so out of my home office and, despite having to get used to the somewhat sudden switch in environment and pace, have been increasingly enjoying the improvement in my quality of life.