Hiya Innernuts!

Thanks to you all for the kind words, thoughts and prayers. The news on my brother remains hopeful and for the most part unchanged for the time being. We're all going to give the anxiety a rest for the holiday weekend.

Sorry to have disappeared on you all, my innernuts... it's just that a series of non-traumatic but nevertheless internet-interrupting events converged at one time to make it more trouble than I could manage to find time and opportunity at a computer. I'm back(-ish) now though, so probably you need to lock up the silver and place your valuables in a safe-deposit somewhere if it worries you.

Anyway, hope everyone has a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving weekend planned. (Unless you live in a nation that celebrates Thanksgiving at some other time, in which case, I'm sorry you have to continue working until Saturday like normal. That's just the price you pay for having a civilized health-care delivery and payment system.) Me? I'll be at a winery, drinking wine, and... and... well, I'm sure there's something else on the agenda, but I just keep getting distracted by the thought of all that wine. Oh yeah, food. Lots of it. And wine. Did I mention we're having Thanksgiving at a winery? I did? Oh. Good, then you know.

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you each can hold onto the thought of things for which you're grateful, and may the sentiment renew for you the joy that already exists in your own life.