Travelogue fatigue? you must wonder. But you have just begun. Yes it is true that I have only begun to write but I am in serious trouble if not fatigue then of writers bloc. It must just be the nature of beginning a new venture. First I talk of canaries and then You, me and Dupree. How do the two relate? This question has been nagging me from the start.

One recent episode might revelatory. Eyes change as we grow older and I have the problem of having one eye that sees distances and the other that sees up close. This is the result of a lasic intervention several years ago. I recently inquired into a second lasic operation but learned that people with autoimmune disease are excluded by most doctors. Apparently our eyes don't heal properly and the results are not 'to our liking.'

Thrilling can only describe this most recent episode in my life. Perhaps that could be this canary's true curse: eternal irrelevance and boredom.

Signing off!