Today's news:
Got a replacement scanner, still need to set it up. No trackball replacement yet. One week of buffer left. My health has been the worst in years this summer. Sometimes I think that maybe now is the time to quit. But this isn't a good point in the story to quit, with everything unresolved.
Spiky's Link of the Day:
The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.
Author's notes:
Hmm, perhaps I should've added a background again now that the action is over ...