In the meanwhile...

My office, with a few boxes of paperbacks to unpack.

I have yet to find either the time or the inspiration for a proper
blog post. Time is the bigger issue, though subject matter is a
challenge too, as re-integration into a native culture is a topic for
either a couple of very cursory paragraphs or forty pages of post. In
the meanwhile, most of my regular status updates have been going to my Facebook profile, which is easier to fire off quick one-liners too,
and doesn't require much of the "sitting down and thinking about it"
that blog posting does. In view of this, I've added a link on the
left to my Facebook profile, should anyone want to connect with my
profile page there and follow along with the shenanigans.

The (very) short of it - The house stuff is unpacked so we have
kitchen utensils now. We've been working on the workshop for the past
couple of days, and today I am building a pair of work benches out of
a sawn-up old door and some lumber. All current focus is on getting
our pile of borrowed tools functioning and getting back to work. More
to come...

(Oh, and this post was sent by mobile, which accounts for the odd formatting)

Intermission

There WILL eventually be more post here, I promise, but the events of the past month have left me no time for writing. In the meantime, here is the funniest thing I've seen in a very long time - "Total Eclipse of the Heart", the literal video version. Teens of the 80's should remember this one well, if for nothing else than the 'Glee Club of the Damned' floating choirboys...