Well, hello, friends.

Oh, you know, one of these days I'm going to get through an entire season,

and there's not going to be any interruptions, and there's not going to be any light segues away or from anything.

We'll try and make it season four. We really, really are.

Apologies for the sudden interruption.

The honest truth is I sat down to record, I got a lot done, I had a little bit of a glitch

with my hard drive, it got scattered into electrons, and it sent me back.

It shouldn't have, but it did.

And it set me back mentally and emotionally because I was already kind of running low.

And I'm running low because of what's going on right now and all the information that's coming my way.

I've lived kind of an unusual life, and as such I don't really have family.

But I do have a lot of friends, and they are all over the world.

And they're friends of various degrees, some of them only drop by occasionally, and some

on in weekly touch with.

Some of them mean as much to me as any relationship might to you, I think.

And well, I'm hearing stories from them all around the world, and some are hopeful, some

are dreary, and it drained me.

Maybe I gave a little bit more than I should have.

I needed to take a little break.

I was upset, and I was on an inch, and I really wanted to a little break. I was upset and I was on edge.

And I really wanted to shake things up.

Just kind of let go of all the stress.

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