I need to go back to work so I can have a rest. A couple of hours in a semi dark booth pushing a few buttons on command from a Stage Manager would be quite restful just now. It is catch-up time after a very busy Summer. I am repainting the inside of my house, building a deck at my Mum &Dad's (well supervising and reassuring the old folks that they have not hired a cowboy builder.) Next week a new gas fireplace goes in their front room. ( And much reassurance that it will not explode and burn the house down) I have a story about a house fire just before Christmas and my favourite "Linus" blanket having been left behind during the harrowing second floor escape to safety. It survived as obviously, so did I. I finally bought a TV combo for my "old" friend in the nursing home. He was absolutely delighted and immediately asked me to smuggle him some porn into the old folks home. I did, no further comment. The yard clean-up has finished just in time to put up the X-mas lights, that would be times two of course. Oh and there is the little matter of the election I am running in next month. Yes, I need my head examined, as I fear I shall win and after 25 years of assiduously casting comments from the peanut gallery and avoiding any office. My number seems to be up. I am (probably) about to become union boss. Yikes! what next, A new Cadillac and an old stogie....Bill  ¶ 17:32