r! I mean, Robert! How good to hear from you! I shall catch up in a note written earlier, farther away from my bedtime. But I wanted to wish you a happy Solstice, as well. It's certainly a happy day for Barbara (mi amor), who longs for the return of light. I think we'll gain only a couple of seconds in the next day or two, but she'll take what she can get. -Lauren Contact update for me: best email: http://www.horns.org/~lauren (the laurenh@gci address has fallen into disuse; I clear out the spam every couple of weeks or so, but that's about it.)