Happy Easter

i'll soon be leaving on a jet plane for an early spring visit to the homeland and i fully expect that upon my return the weather here in berlin will have resumed its normal cold and clammy gloominess. i'll be lugging the laptop along but if for some reason i am too exhausted by my oft-outraged sensibilities to pen extended diatribes for upload here feel free to keep track of my painfully slow demise by scanning these fitful updates