Happy Saturnalia to you all.

I'm back.

I'm not dead.

I'm alive and well.

In fact, so alive and well that this is the update where I explain what happened to me,

but just to cut to the chase, episode 10.40 is going to drop on January the 3rd, January

the 3rd, 2021.

I've gotten a lot of emails and messages wondering what the heck happened to me.

So this is the update where I explain what the heck happened to me.

So revolutions should have been back up and running by now.

I was scheduled to come back on November 4th.

Unfortunately the last couple of months have been a rolling series of disasters.

When I left you all back in April, everything was going fine and I had a nice brave face

on.

But the last eight months, particularly the last four months, have been kind of hellish

and grueling for me.

So the thing is I took a nose dive off a cliff going into the home stretch of finishing

the Lafayette book in September.

I got leveled by severe kidney stone issues that necessitated trips to the ER, then consultations

and lab screens and scans and COVID tests and medication.

And on top of the physical issues, the pain and the not sleeping well and the discomfort,

navigating doctors and hospitals in a foreign language is exhausting and stressful.

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