
Oh my, you jinxed it, Francis, saying “is it over?” a month or so back. I had a whole presentation to complete for Clockwork Alchemy, which I “finished” only minutes before the actual presentation; then I had a breakneck two weeks working to break down my office in our home in California.

That’s where it was. I hoped to finish in a week or so, but ended up packing late the night before I left and running to FedEx in the morning before my flight. But I got it done, and now my wife is free to touch up the walls and floors in there before we rent or sell the place.
So I’m not now going to say “it’s over”. It’s never over, but at least today, I got to breathe.
-the Centaur
Pictured: My lunch at Panera, planning next steps, and our former great room and my temporary post-pandemic, post-renovation office in our house in California.