Having just been assured via voicemail (thanks, Ben! You're a sweetie) that more than two other people read this, I hereby resolve to be slightly more regular in my updates. Very encouraging. And besides, by posting here I can be assured that no one is going to call me a 'bedwetter' for being a leftie. (Yes, this occurred yesterday. Again, arguing with these people is futile. I must withdraw honourably!)

More on this later too (I have to catch a bus), but: the rodeo is really really *surreal*. Especially when you see ZZ Top. In the Astrodome. To quote them, howhowhowhow.