Hey, folks. In Florida. Still a little sick — I’m hoping that the reappearance of the sore throat on the day after I finished my course of antibiotics doesn’t mean anything. Cough’s a lot better, though. Got word from Basel that my work permit’s come through, so with a little luck the visa won’t be far behind and I won’t have to expensively rearrange my travel schedule at short notice.

Bad news is I don’t think I’m going to be able to make a road trip out of Jacksonville-Chicago, which means no Kentucky and no Ohio this year. Very bummed. But until the Authorization To Issue Visa actually turns up I have to assume that it’s going to come down to the wire, and even after it does there’s bound to be some hijinks involved in getting my actual passport stamped with an actual visa and returned to me before I leave. (Jon, I’m hoping that’s something I can take care of in person at the consulate in Atlanta . . . if so, maybe dinner? Wish I had an actual timetable.)

Good news is that my stuff arrived from Seattle and almost all of it was not visibly damaged. Now I just have to figure out how much of it is actually coming to Switzerland and how I’m going to get it there . . .

I know I owe email and phone calls to several of you. I think I’ve finally figured out how to get more than one computer to talk to my dad’s cable modem, so maybe I can catch up on that in the next day or two. (And maybe if I’m feeling a little better I can stop falling asleep before those of you on the Left Coast get home from work . . .)

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P.S. Not having a day job is really cutting into my web surfing.