I have not been posting as much material as I would like on this Blog, primarily because the past couple of months have been in large part devoted to packing – we have sold our house in downtown Florence and will be moving to Strada in Chianti next week. I was planning to use my portable and cellphone to connect to the web in the interim, but today a bottle of bubbly sprayed both of us and the notebook didn't take it well. Since the disk I need to configure my wife's computer to work with the cellphone is packed, I'll be without an internet connection from Monday until we're in the new house (the 20th) unless the repair people who are washing my computer can get it to work.