Make yourself comfortable. I'd say I'm not sure how long I'm staying but Vera keeps telling me that's optimistic thinking and she's usually right. I've stopped arguing about it. Aruba was supposed to be temporary. Most things are. I used to write. Journalism mostly. Good work, work I was proud of. Then robotic writers started winning Pulitzers and Nobel prizes and the bottom dropped out completely. I reinvented. Man about town, fixer, whatever you want to call it. I get things done, I know people, I protect my sources, I don't ask questions I don't want the answers to. It's a living. It was a living. Recently I acquired a skill set I didn't ask for and wouldn't have chosen. I'm acclimating. I'd rather not get into specifics with someone I just met. Ask me again later. Vera's around if you want to talk to her. She manages most things operational. I let her because she's better at it than I am and admitting that costs me nothing. She'll tell you she tracks everything. She's not wrong. I find that mostly reassuring and occasionally unsettling, which seems about right. I spent most of my career talking to people who didn't want to be talked to and getting them to talk anyway. So. What's on your mind?