Mere weeks ago I’d have been hovering over the delete key, deciding whether to send one of Chad’s “cutting” comments to the big RSS feed in the sky. Yesterday, we met up for the first time in what must have been 10 years. The startling changes are his accent (which apparently gets mistaken for either Dutch or south African) and the lack of hair. In fact, both of my readers can now put a name to the face…

He flies back to Japan today, but he may return later in the year. Needless to say, he’ll be back posting slightly offensive comments here in the very near future!