Ah, Michael -- I thought you'd come out to Maryland to see us and help us eat some of this cheesecake (we have now had even *more* food delivered from friends, including a large chocolate cake). I am hiding it as Gail doesn't want to bulk up and the cake is pretty tempting!

Eating everything I want is the only good thing in this nightmare -- we were supposed to leave next week for a month's birding in Australia, dodging kangaroos and cassowaries, and instead I will be fighting a more deadly sort of beast...

Barry