Yet I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem

Our first morning in Amsterdam brought the sad news that whatever problem it was kept e-mail from being received and ssh from working wasn't a transient glitch but something that persisted through the day. (Well, Outlook was allowed through.) After all the running around and activity of the past week, we did something novel for us: slept in past breakfast. We wouldn't make many more breakfasts this trip, it turned out.

( What museum did we go to, and what mistake did it make regarding Albany, New York? What museum did we not go to in favor of watching an oddly-dressed man yell at people from the water? How did a vehicle not get dropped into the canals? And how would a mermaid play soccer? The answers may surprise you.  )

Sadly, the e-mail blackout continued, although I could check my gmail account by going through the web site.

Trivia: At the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games a new Olympic Flag, sewn by Korean women and from Korean raw silk, made its debut. The previous flag, the Antwerp flag, had been first flown in 1914 and at the Games since 1920. Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.

Currently Reading: Imprisoned In A Tesseract: The Life And Work Of James Blish, David Ketterer. I did not know that shortly before his death, Blish's wife had coaxed him (a rock-and-roll unenthusiast) into some appreciation for Yes. (This would be before Trevor Horn's contributions to the group, of course.) Also I admire Ketterer's endearingly mistaken efforts to insist there's something interesting about The Warriors Of Day or The Night Shapes, or that there's any way to understand what the heck The Duplicated Man is all about.