The Company

On February 22, we had Bonnie ("Xiang Wen," a.k.a. "Wu Xie Zhi"), Marc ("Anabel Windsor," a.k.a. "Abigail Wilson"), Mike ("Vincenzo Calliente," of many aliases), and Torsten ("Qoqa Ramazanov," a.k.a. "Zoya Petrovna Sidorov"). Martin ("Zhu Zhang," a.k.a. "Harold Lee") was still in Japan.

( Last session's events . . . )

PC failure

A brief note to friends, colleagues, and others who may give a doodle: The hard drive on my primary PC died on March 6. While the machine is in the shop, I'm relegated to using this very old, rather basic laptop with a bad keyboard. I lack all access to my archived e-mail, I can only correspond via gmail, and I don't even have access to a copy of Word.* I am therefore not very available online . . . or in real life, as I dicker with shops and eventually spend many days rebuilding my work environment. If it's desperately important that you get in touch, try the phone.

Thanks for your patience!

* Those of you who deal with me professionally shouldn't worry: all drafts and notes on drafts are backed up. Nothing valuable was lost except for my time.