ah, feel the love... thank you for all the excellent feedback and words of encouragement, my beautiful friends - you all rock. and thank you also to the first handful of members to my new email list (by the way, if you've tried the link in the email and it didn't work, try the links on this page, or just delete the hyphen at the very end of the url, and hit enter again). as far as i can tell, signing up for the kai-india email list will be a spam-free event - apart from my repeated efforts to flog my book, once it's out, that is! though fear not - i will not send you mail which causes you to doubt your prescription drug requirements, your financial needs, or the size of your appendage. in more irrelevant news, i have finally trained myself to see those magic eye 3-d pictures. hitherto deemed an absolute waste of time (i was one of those people who stood outside granny may's when they first came out, , staring furiously for about fifteen seconds before declaring it all to be 'a load of crap', then storming off to look at the 'real 3-d' puppies and kittens instead). now i am so good at it that the darn images seem to jump straight out of the page... oh, for a magic-eye picture in framed shop-window display renaissance, so i may re-visit the shopping mall, and whatever shop took the baton from the granny may's chain of stores... that i might stroll casually past and spot the secret image without even stopping... that i might casually proclaim, 'it's a boat! a BOAT! can't you see it? it's right there!!'