Okay, we are not coming from the best place I've ever been in terms of morale and achievement.  It took me FOUR HOURS to write two paragraphs of PEG II today.  Mind you, they were pretty interesting paragraphs, once I got them nailed to the page so they couldn't escape.*  But it was not a happy four hours and this has cast a pall.

            Also it's been tipping down rain most of the day, to hellhounds' and my lasting unjoy and antidelight.  At least the garden(s) got watered;  I have...