> As an aside, a frequent poster said via email that a recent post of mine "must have taken hours".  Nope, I have one-cup-of-coffee posts, and two-cuppers. 

I know what you mean. It's the short ones that take hours.

as Blaise Pascal wrote (translated)

> The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. 

The Provincial Letters, by Blaise Pascal
Letter XVI; TO THE REVEREND FATHERS, THE JESUITS
December 4, 1656

PLB

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