Was fun as hell (I mean, heck) blogging in the Corner for a month. But the Beijing Olympics are over, the Salzburg Festival is over, and the political conventions are over — meaning I’m back in my “routine” (such as it is) and have returned to my regular forum, Impromptus. Here is today’s column.

(I should clarify that I was not in Beijing — just wrote about those Olympics. But was at the other places, as regular readers know.)

I will be back in the Corner from time to time, however — and that’s not a promise but a warning, as a friend of mine likes to say.

And can I throw one more item at you, while I’m in the mood? This is not included in Impromptus. Was getting on a plane, and a pilot was boarding with me — not working the flight, just traveling. And he had on his bag a bumper sticker: “Hope Takes Flight.” And then it said, “Pilots for Obama.”

My point, then? I guess I don’t really have one. But it burned me a little. Why? Because I’m a partisan Republican? Well, maybe. But also because — maybe I think pilots should be above that sort of thing, like the military. Not saying it’s perfectly logical, but . . .

Anyway, kind of a lame one to end on — but there will be more, always more.