For all the perks of the big city and for all the possibilities inherent in a pervasive public transportation system there still exists at least one huge deterrent to embracing a life set in the middle of either: people. Dirty people. On Tuesday night (two days after our return from NYC) I promptly became grievously ill and am still crawling out of the pits of malaise. Probably picked up a cocktail of germs on the subway; anyway, I hope to be able to return to regular posting now that my dreadful sickness has mostly passed.