I gave up at friends/?skip=430

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I am back from SF which was lovely. I ate and drank well, and enjoyed the company of many good people. Special thanks to zebulon_y for the use of a couch much longer than is considered polite. There is pork on the way.

I won't try to summarize the trip because I am lazy.

If anyone huge happened in my absence, I may have missed it because skip=430.