I've been busy, yes, and unable to complete the discussion about the Lithuanian citizenship brouhaha—but it's also become a huge issue that's getting covered on artcles in Amerikos lietuvis and the like. So, I doubt I have anything particularly interesting or new to say. I'm not a immigration lawyer, after all. Plus, I'm behind the ball by now, etc., etc.

I've come back from Brazil, and I will have an article written about the time spent there for PLJS. As for the non-PALJS Suvažiavimas parts, I can only say that Rio is (still) a great city, and I would really like to return again soon—but this time I would hope that the rain could stay in the mountains. We had a lot of fun there, but we didn't stray far from Copacabana. That's only half a complaint; it was really the rain that was dragging us down (and that continued, unfortunately, in São Paulo). São Paulo is, I imagine, a far less impressive city than Rio, or, at least, that's what I get from my time there. It just seems really huge.

In any case, I'm still very eager to start posting here again with some regularity. I hope to start with uploading photos from my trip (there are about 700 that I consider worth putting online), but am not sure that this site's infrastructure is up for it. In general, it seems like the photo aspect of this site is losing steam. Before sites like Facebook and flickr existed, the photos on Lithchat served a noble task. Now, however, the site is slow in comparison to the pro sites, and uploading/commenting/searching/etc. is far more complex, slow, and unrewarding. Furthermore, it seems like I'm the only person still interested in uploading photos on Lithchat, and that's really too bad.

I'm investigating starting up a semi-private, multiple-user contributed photo site on one of the pro sites, but I'm not sure which way to go. Suggestions?