A minor public service announcement from Doc Bushwell

To the approximately half-dozen or so of my regular readers:

The Refuge has been very active recently thanks to the capers of the young males of the troop. As a consequence, those few entries I offer are likley to be buried quickly. Should you have a burning desire to read my blathering specifically, I have added a "Doc Bushwell" category so that my meager number of entries can be sorted from the piles of overripe banana peels.

And now back to your regularly scheduled brachiation...

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Now if my yearly pittance from SEED was increased 740-fold, thus approximating my salary at DOPI, I might think about turning up the volume.