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09/05/2005: "Our flood"

Well, it's nothing like what's happening in the Gulf states, but we had a flood here in mid-August resulting from a rare tornado touching down in Stratford, ON; not far from Toronto. The resulting downpour gave us four inches of water throughout our basement apartment, resulting in heavy losses in books and papers. Fortunately, all equipment appears to work, with the exception of one waterlogged USB drive power supply. Today I am getting my office back in condition. Why today? I have been on the road for three weeks at a client site, so my brave wife had to go through all this alone. I thank her deeply for handling the flood itself, getting help from neighbors, beginning to clean up, calling the insurance company... all those things I know she generally strongly dislikes doing.

So if I have been unresponsive to e-mail or phone calls in the last few weeks, that's why. I apologize for that. In the coming couple of days we should be back to nominal, if not normal.