A "funny" aside.

I didn't realize how much I was keeping from a dear person working far away until this week, when something in my update made them worried.

I gave them a sanitized version of how things have been, because there's not a darned thing they can do at a distance - they don't even have time for real chats.

But even then I was dreading having worried them.

That's not ideal.
Sorrows and stresses need outlets.

So thank you again, CoSo, for being such a brilliantly safe part of mine.