[Guest author's note]

Hi Eclipse Court readers:

Karen pinch-hitting for Shirley here: despite a promise from the nice folks at Bell Sympatico on Friday night that her Internet outage would be no longer than 30 hours, and a second promise that they'd send a tech out to her place yesterday, said tech never showed up and her connection is still out. Expect the next post whenever they get it together to get her back online, or when she gets out to her local library and uses their net service to post (they're closed Mondays). If I recall rightly, it concerns the question of whether Geography or Mathematics is pugilistically superior, the fate of a white fluffball, and Minis both despising and indulging the evil within...