Okay, realizing that, with the Bush detainee/torture bill, the worst has happened; it's just a matter now of cinching it down. The vulgar reality of it would gag a maggot, but maybe watchfulness will serve me as security for a while. Meantime, next month, perhaps, we'll save more than 271.00 dollars by not indulging in the vanity of our own PC and high speed internet cable, and all the online credit card enticements thereof. Now that sounds like sense and reason. Whatever happens, though the choice be random, I will probably not be among the first destined by those notorious lists to torture and murder; and I will hear of its coming via the internet in plenty of time to flee. Magari. I think now, indeed, what if, being sincere in my apprehensions, I were to stay two months, saving up, say, 600.00 dollars. Such that I might set out on the southerly hegira with 1,200 dollars on the first of January....