Sorry for the site outages and slow loading of the site today.  This blog’s traffic has been growing of late, as well as the traffic of several other blogs hosted on this server.  This has resulted in the need for a memory upgrade for the server in order to handle the additional load.  Unfortunately, with the holidays at hand the personnel available to do the memory upgrade is limited thus the slowness of the site and the outages will probably continue through tomorrow.

I apologize for the inconvenience as I know the slowness has made this site all but unusable.