wear a shedload of sunscreen, and take a shirt or coverup

Oh, definitely (and ouch). I’ll learn from my red-haired dad’s example, too. He forgot that being on a boat meant that the sun would reflect back from a lower angle and had not sunscreened appropriately (i.e., he thought his hat would shade things it didn’t). Blisters for days.

I’m glad your hand is recovering well, Steph.

And I’m glad your brother is back to eating, Laura! As for smoking, I guess it’s good to feel up to doing things you shouldn’t.

I found out today that my department’s budget was cut by 25%, and there will definitely be layoffs happening over the next few months. Will I be among them? Hard to say. But at least I’m now physically in the location I want to work, so I hope that’ll make it easier to job hunt successfully around here, if it comes to it. But I’d rather it didn’t.