Out of the office

Just in case either or my readers was wondering, the lack of posts recently has been due to travel - I'm writing this in the lounge in a hotel near Paddington Station, and won't be back to my usual haunts for another week or so. I'm taking copious notes about this trip, and I've been doing a fair bit of reading, so volume should go up again after I get back to Honolulu. I'm going to try to schedule a few posts tonight so that there are things going up over while I'm gone.

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