Although No News is Good News…

...(as the saying goes) it's nice to get the real thing from time to time. I'm almost fully in retreat mode now, being back at Aspen and settled in to my office at the Center and so forth. It's good to see some familiar faces and catch up a little on physics news, and gossip (still waiting for some good juicy stuff there). I've settled into my accommodation (which on the plus side has no wireless or other web connection, but on the minus has HBO, which I shall have to studiously avoid), and have