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Dear Valued Reader,

The dramatic decline in frequency of posting in the last month is due to a particular malfunction in my digital camera. If my camera were still working, I would have wonderful pictures to post along with my droll commentary. But without the pictures I feel that my words are not as interesting. If a picture is worth one thousand words, surely they speak the first thousand and my words are some kind of afterward.


Monica and I will return to the United States in one week. Shortly after that time we will develop the hundreds of film pictures we have taken while the digital camera was not working. Stay tuned for more pictures -- and afterwords -- after that point.

With warmest regards for you and your kin. May your digital camera not fail you now!