Life, the Universe and Everything

Well, I wasn't planning on being sick for a week, but I think I'm starting to come out of it now; today I finally had enough brain-cells firing to start poking, yet again, at the same place where I was stalled back in July, and I may just have finally managed to get these clowns out of the [not!Reuss] catchment basin. One extremely stupid argument down, several to go.