Made my deadline! Sleep beckons. At the quasi-Dead show last night it occurred to me that I am curious about who's reading this journal, especially people whom I don't know personally. I've deliberately tried to proceed without looking over my shoulder, and I've eschewed a lot of analysis of this format in the content itself, but a recent message I received combined with the upheavals I've chronicled here recently have led me to wonder again about you.

There's no "keep out" sign here though obviously you read at your own risk, and I'm not going to put requirements on my readers, but I'd like to take this opportunity to invite readers (especially repeat visitors) to drop me a note sometime and tell me something about yourself, or about my journal, or about why you read it, or what it means to you. Thanks.