building muscles to equal my ambitions

--that's what it's always about, isn't it. There are desires and goals, and then there's getting strong enough (metaphorically and literally) to do those things. ... I may have to keep my head down a bit if I'm really going to master some rudimentary Tetum so as not to be *completely at sea* in East Timor. I also have some tedious-aggravating stuff to deal with in real life (nothing serious-bad, just time consuming and mildly yucky), so that may also keep me away a bit.

But not too terribly mu...