…a paper for a conference that I'll be presenting at in a few weeks.  Took longer than i thought/hoped it would.  Always interesting doing the research and trying to find material that supports your thesis, but it can take its time as well.  I'd enjoy going overseas and digging through some library's old manuscripts for information that hasn't been translated or discovered yet. That would be a blast.  BTW History Farts' banishment ends right about today, so he may be back on here.  Then again he may have left us for good.  Whichever, just wanted to give a heads up.