I'm sorry for the dies horribilis, and I hope today will be a better. I'm glad there at least wasn't a bad week before it.

Congratulations on the certificate! I'm happy for the books and t-shirt.

Thanks for the views of Mars! (I know, intellectually, that I'll not, but on some level every time I see something like this I hope I'll suddenly see thoats and flyers and red and green people, or at least a wooden landship under sail, with a snarling-beast figurehead and wheels spun of crystalline wire.)