Again, our apologies for not posting updates on a daily basis as we usually do – the honest truth is, we have a baby arriving in three weeks (a human one, not a new site or anything like that ), and there just isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done – so some stuff unfortunately falls by the wayside. We’ll really try to do better
On the CoherentLight front, we have very little to report – Ed is still quite ill, and it’s hard even getting hold of him even though he’s just 40 minutes away. The last time we visited him, he could barely get out of bed, let along get online or work on new material – we wish we could be more positive on the situation, but all we can say is that he feels extraordinarly bad about re-launching his site and then getting seriously ill again – promises to make things up to people when he can finally get back to work – and we hope others join with us in wishing him the best.

Sorry for the lack of posts for the past few days, but we had to make a quick, unexpected business trip to Las Vegas. And we’re even sorrier to report that things seem to keep getting worse there in terms of sightings.
Admittedly, we were there in the middle of winter when visitors are fewer than normal – and the big convention in town was a concrete convention which wouldn’t tend to attract younger, pretty smokers. Even so, the number of sightings worth mentioning was almost as low as it would be in California – pretty discouraging stuff. What was even more alarming (to us, anyway) was that we walked past several cigarette vending machines in different casinos, and rather than have a decent selection of brands – each machine had two entire rows of Marlboro Ultra Lights and three rows of Marlboro Lights, with a few other brands (including Marlboro Reds) taking up the last two rows. Maybe that’s the vendor’s idea of what sells best, but we’d have to believe it’s really the vendor’s response to what does sell best. Wow.
Trips to Vegas aren’t quite as “satisfying” as they used to be.