"Outlook cloudy, try again"

(Magic 8-Ball says)

Foggy morning.  Clearing off now, but that's just the meteorological part.  Big Brother's latest intervention in the financial markets will probably take longer to reveal results.  Or lack of same.

And I sincerely hope our offspring are planning to work long and hard to pay off all these deferred debts.

Dubious ideas

Apparently someone has commissioned another book in the "Hitchhiker" series.

Barring a really long and effective seance, I can't see how this will turn out well.  I can't think of a single instance of a series continuation for a dead author that I found satisfactory.  Hell, even series continuation by a living author gets dicey.  Citing here Frank Herbert's later "Dune" books, or Xanth . . .