Man, my USA isocube worked even better than expected - didn't get the news until 20 minutes ago. Don't get too panicky, the world isn't ending. Probably won't even suck that much more, just in an even less palatable way. Do something with friends and/or a loved one, just don't let the mood get all the way down to Nevil Shute. Today I realized that the separate journal I write in Latin is full. It's mostly little things, "here's a soup I made - it was a foul, but filling, random mixture" or "this must have been a bumper crop of wallnuts, my hands are sore from cracking 'em" and similar around-the-house notes. Took almost four years, had many long pauses, most of it looks so bad I don't want to read but still evokes the memories, and the quality graph is clearly a see-saw. Again, not a huge milestone, but it did give me a little bump in the competence department.