So, here I am in Arizona, still

Yeah, yeah, OK, I know I've been absent except on the comments, but I'm traveling, all right? Everything I have worth saying gets said over beer or whiskey, tonight to Jim Lippard and John Lynch, the latter of whom is my present host. I must thank Malte Ebach for his hospitality over the past week too.

On to Utah on Wednesday. Lynch tells me I'm off to see fossils and stuff in Tucson tomorrow. I hope he means geological fossils, and not my contemporaries. Even I think I'm an old fogey.

Speaking of fogeys, it's PZ Mashgvsihem's birthday. He is only slightly less fogeyish than I - he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it's so noisy inside here. Despite his complete lack of appreciation of subtle philosophy, he's really not so bad for a cephalopod loving Satanic destroyer of all that is decent. Go wish him a happy birthday, or say a prayer in the comments. He loves that, you know...

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He is only slightly less fogeyish than I - he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it's so noisy inside here.

I've no idea what you are chundering on about. I've got you both beat by a handful and I'm still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don't you know that life begins at seventy.

Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life.... don't trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time.

I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized.

Keep on, John.