Two Mushroom Soup Days in a row! I've been battling a script deadline, dealing with computer problems and coping with an intermittently-recurring headache that feels like Desi Arnaz is playing "Babalu" on my cerebral cortex. All of these should be gone in the next day or so and things will normalize here.
I also now turn out to have an e-mail problem. The server via which I receive your (mostly) lovely mail has decided that everything is not only Spam but apparently the kind that you Return to Sender, rather than just divert into a Spam folder. On October 1, they changed how they process mail and things you may have sent me may have bounced back to you. This is not because I don't exist any longer on the 'net but because they stopped allowing "catch-all" addresses — some of you know what those are — and that screwed up how my mail was routed to me. It took me a couple days to notice because some of it was getting through but not all. If something you sent me bounced back to you, please resend it.
In other news, I've found out that if Desi Arnaz is playing "Babalu" on any part of your body, a good way to stop it is to take a vacation from watching the news. I've only had a few peeks in the last twenty-four hours and I gather that (a) Mr. Kavanaugh is probably going to be confirmed, (b) even if he is, people will be campaigning against him and protesting for a long time and (c) if Republican officials are to be believed, the only opposition to him in this country that is not paid-for by George Soros is mine. Maybe George's e-mail offering to fund me bounced. Back soon.