Greetings from the 48th State!

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, USA -- Greetings from the United States... from Ireland we headed up to Northern Ireland. I then flew from Belfast back to London for a night, and then back to Chicago in the morning via Philadelphia. I spent about a week in Chicago, then drove over 2,000 miles to Scottsdale, AZ via St. Louis, MO; Baxter Springs, KS; Tulsa, OK; Oklahoma City, OK; Amarillo, TX; Albuquerque, NM; Santa Fe, NM; and Flagstaff, AZ.

Been here in Scottsdale for a week now, and have made good progress on writing the dissertation. So far I'm about 20% done with the first draft, just getting something done every day, making progress, so it's all good.

The temperatures have finally cooled off a bit too... we were hitting 115F every day for the last week until yesterday, when the high was only about 105, and today the high is only around 99, so muuuuuuch better. Those 15 degrees are the difference between really hot and unbearable.

Hope all is well wherever you readers may be!

Back to work...