>>Yes, it's a commitment, and it can be hard on the home front. So thanks...(I think?)
Try crossing the Pacific for a conference. Mind you, I have a school age daughter in the US at the moment who wants me to get another place and stay for a while so maybe the commute will get shorter.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
