I apologize (belatedly) for FmH’s inaccessibility most of the day Tuesday. We had what was perhaps the most dramatic and violent thunderstorm I had ever seen in Boston on Monday night, and apparently a lightning strike brought down the microwave link at the top of the Prudential tower upon which a number of Boston area ISPs depend for their connectivity to the web. As a result, FmH’s domain was unreachable.

Lovely storm, in any case. I went walking barefoot in the bombast and the torrential downpour around 12:30 a.m. Among other things, it washed the mulch out of many a garden and the gravel off many a driveway in my neighborhood.