Excruciating pain in right big toe, side of foot, did manage to hobble my way into some new shoes, a bit worried about how to walk Peretz who's beginning to look concerned. A lovely day, would really love to be out in it, spreading love, like usual. Really need an entourage of assorted eccentric characters to slip more fully into my role as bitter gouty old man, might be able to make it worth your while, I hear comic epistolary novels are coming back in vogue.