Thanks to all of you who contributed over the past few days to the continued operation of this site. Your generosity is deeply appreciated.

I thought I'd be back writing today in a somewhat normal fashion, but, unexpectedly, late yesterday I learned I must return to the hospital this morning for another session of fluid pumping. (By now, an old story: dehydration). Fill 'er up! Further, Wednesday I'm booked for a rendezvous with radiology. In short, it shall be Thursday before I'm back in something akin to regular order. (That promise, though, is more genuine than Paul Ryan's.) I will however try to comment here and there, between now and then. 

And once again, thanks to everyone who pitched in of late. Your help is of more value than you can know.