Leaving on a Jet Plane

So, after a couple of weeks of exceedingly busy, frequently annoying, and generally attention-sapping work, I'm forced by circumstances beyond my control to go hurtling across time zones and oceans in order to spend a week or so at a business conference back in the U.S. of A. Bother.

Travel, at this point in my life, mostly means annoyance at leaving the dog, missing Mr. Muscato, and, right now, not being here as, for the first time in six months, the weather is such that it's actually possible to start turning off the air conditioners and living like people.

Updates from the road as possible forthcoming, most of them, with any luck at all, less gripy than this one...