well, as i said earlier, once phatmatt.com got back up i started posting. unfortunately, something is broken. whether it is blogger.com or phatmatt.com that is at fault, i don't know for sure. anyway, you can rest assured that i'm reading this sumbitch at blogger untill the post and publish is fully functional (only post works now. some ftp problem). perhaps we can bring this thing back enough that people without access to the editing blogger suite will have to search the archives for stuff they've missed cause there's simply so much going on here. riiight. anyway, martin, it looks like it's gonna be real tough finishing out the us on this trip. that sort of sooks.

matt -- fix this mofo.