Since arriving home from the NR cruise around 6 pm Saturday, I have written

a 2,000-word article, a 2,000-word book review, 1,200 words of unsigned

editorial matter, and my Christmas — oops! that’s Holiday — book

recommendations for NRO. I have updated my website, taken my kids to the

movies, unpacked my bags, read my mail (20 or so items) and e-mail (200 or

so), paid some bills, walked my dog, read 2 chapters of a book about

finite-dimensional vector spaces, and caught up on newspaper/magazine

reading. All this while struggling with PCD (that is, post-cruise

depression). Slow day? What’s that?