Soon I will take my longest-ever blogging holiday

In a week, I'm going to be at Burning Man! Apparently it is full of insects this year. Not good. I thought the one benefit of going to a harsh desert environment that's inimical to all forms of life would be it's, you know, inimicalness to pestilential life. But no luck. Apparently it's been a wet year and the insects are breeding.

It's my first time. I …