I've been looking forward to this get-together for well over a month, so it pains me to say that I have to bow out due to a last-minute family matter. So sorry....
"Life is a combination of magic and pasta." -- Federico Fellini
"You're not going to like it in Chicago. The wind comes howling in from the lake. And there's practically no opera season at all--and the Lord only knows whether they've ever heard of lobster Newburg." --Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane.