Folks:

Thank you all for your kind messages. I am on the ground, and thanks to the U.S. Army's morale and welfare organization, able to log on to Mudcat via the Internet Cafe. I have a good crew of American JAG officers to work with. My immediate boss is a guitar playing Marine JAG lieutenant-colonel, who seems to take an interest in my peculiar musical predilections. I expect there will be some good conversations in the office. Unfortunately, he doesn't have his guitar with him.

Cheers.

Edmund