I've had some health issues crop up that have really, really, beat me down. I've never felt so mortal in my entire life.
On top of this I've been piled on at work (not a bad thing, but a bit too much at this time (example: you just come out of anasthesia to discover you've recently been made chair of a search comittee)).
If I survive the next couple of months, I'll try to be around a bit more. But the caveat is that I am also writing an intro chemistry lab manual (I'm starting small), and that will be my time to write it. Next is the the full text-book, but I need to convince a certain person to help me on that, since it's more than one person should do.
I hope to see you all more in the near future! I haven't forgotten ANY of you.
Keep fighting the clown dictator!
-P
Sorry to hear about your health problems but it sounds like you're much better.
I hope when you write you'll use the principle of KISS so everyone will understand it. I remember taking chemistry in high school and the teacher began by balancing an equation on the blackboard and a lot of us couldn't figure out where he was getting the numbers from. I asked him to explain the numbers and from the look on his face he realized we weren't all math geniuses and took five minutes to explain which then made sense.
I love instructional books that are easy to read and understand because it makes learning, for me, easier. In the lat 80s I took a college statistics course and was lost in it so I dropped the class. I ried again and the instruction told us the book we'd use simplified statistics to the point he really didn't need to be in class and he was right. I got an "A" in the course because the book's author understood who his audience was.