This may be the last update of the non-terminal thread for a while — I'm going to get beat up by some doctors today, and there are too many steps involved in thread closure and new thread creation and template updating to hand this job off to Mary. So the ol' portcullis may stay up for a while.
A hard day of knives and needles demands a more inspiring video than usual to get it going…so here's Stephen Fry with some advice I'll be taking to heart.
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