Service announcement

Blogging will be highly unregular here in the coming days and potentially weeks. The reason for that is that my dear wife is very, very ill, and at this point there is the possibility that she’s not going to make it.

So everything but attending to her needs while trying to come to grips with my unbelivable grief has been put on hold.

Service will resume on and off as I feel up to it.

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