Recalling former days

Many thanks to all of you kind enough to express your dismay at the loss of my laptop (stolen in Newark airport last Friday). I have re-lived the moment a thousand times since. It's not the hardware; it is the fact that I had not backed it up since the May 11! I won't bore you now with the incalculable losses of work I have suffered as a consequence. I have seriously been contemplating an early retirement!

Thanks, too, for you kind words on becoming a grandfather, or, as one of you insists "It's grand-daddy in the South!"

I'll blog some more when I re-surface!