Loins: girded

What the hell does that even mean?  

Anyway, my loins are girded; my hook baited for Leviathan.  I take "The Annotated Palin..." into the belly of the beast in about five minutes.  If I never come back, it's been a pleasure.  Really.

Assuming I do come back, you should know that I'm trying an experiment.  I'll be taking annotations with standard size magic markers rather than the usual Sharpies.  I want to see if this is a way to make the annotations read better for my newspaper project.  We'll see.