Just took Petya on a tour of quality valley shoppes so he could get bday cake & liquor & c. for upstate NY partying Russian style, I'm currently enjoying extravagantly sugary Indian confections & bing cherries, am experimenting with freezing Old Krupnik, will soon be much sweeter than you expect, diabetic or both, looking forward to a quiet night in, I think.

Slow day, quite a change, head still racing in perpetual panic state, the tribe must survive &, as usual, it's down to me, working out a root/berry gathering schedule, going through my references for appropriate rituals, watching the skies.