Could you see this from Flag?

Oh yeah, been there, some years ago now. Wonderful. Learned that the old-timey monks knew how to construct it such that the interior climate could be stable and thus prevent warping of the wooden printing blocks.

Get well soon, David!

Agree about feeling good after conquering locomotive challenges. The conf was good. My paper had a bigger audience than last years'. Also enjoyed the bucolic surround of the conf site compared w/ megapolises Seoul and Tokyo.

Okay. Just got back from a conference in Japan -- not in Tokyo this time, but a more rural town to the north. What I discovered is that Japan railroads are complicated, unlike in Korea, where the govt runs everything, so finding the right path was challenging. But in the end all was well.

Glad you are all feeling better.

Konichwa, Gert-Jan!

Read HFR sometime back. THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH as I recall was a tad better, but this was certainly good. Must tackle more of the series someday.

"Introvert who pretends to be social," eh? Fits me to a T. How I learned to pretend was take an ESL teaching job. Forced me to come out of my shell, for delimited segments of time, anyway. 😁

It's like "Variations on the Smoke Ring."

I visualized this a few years ago to give an idea as to how it might appear to be there with Daphnis

😆