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Another Apology From The Content Guy

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The email gremlins struck again this morning.

MNB was all posted and ready to go, but the email system I used broke down.  Not sure what happened, but it apparently was systemwide on this particular platform.  (It was an entirely different set of gremlins than the ones that delayed the email last week.  Which should be reassuring.  But isn’t.)

I’m trying to be zen about it, since I can only control the things I can control.  But it ain’t easy.

Apologies for the delay, and thanks, as always, for your patience.

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