(Any former, current or future miserable teenagers out there, feel free to roll your eyes at the cheesy invocation of Ian in the title.)
Dear friends, until I can get home and properly address Vital Issues of the Day(tm), I will commit two grievous faux pas: I will leave a placeholder post and I will shamelessly blow my own horn. After weeks of your nominations, kind words and mash notes, PTMYB has been named a finalist in the Best of Blog Awards, Cooking and Recipes division. Once again, I am tickled pink, especially when I see the other finalists who were nominated. I encourage all y'all to go to the BoB page and check the links of the other finalists. There is a wealth of good writing, good eating and good writing about eating to be found on their pages.
Do not, however, go to the BoB page to vote for me, or any of the other finalists, at least not yet. Voting doesn't start until January 1, 2005. If you vote before then, all you will do is eat up bandwidth and make the good folks at blogmechanics smite their foreheads in frustration. Do you really want to be responsible for all that smiting?
Aw, heck, I'll just link them here. The other finalists are 101 Cookbooks, Amuse Bouche, A Spoonful of Sugar, Cooking for Engineers, edible tulip, My Life With Garlic, This Mama Cooks!, tinyfork and Pastry Life. These are great sites. Read them. Know them. Cook from them. If you'd like, you can even vote for them (but don't tell me...) 
Regular transmissions will resume as soon as I can haul my sorry, er, self, out of a desk chair and into a cozy subway car home.