Pre-Cleveland blog.

No blogging for the next few days -- I have to be elsewhere. Cleveland, as it happens. The butt of jokes, sometimes, but no matter where you are, there's always something to see, and I intend to look around. My first visit there, almost six years ago, was in January, and that of course makes it harder to be out and about.

Luckily, my irritating head condition seems to have passed, in time for me to get on an airplane without suffering too much inner-ear pain. One time I caught a cold in Kuala Lumpur, of all places -- nothing exotic for me, like dengue fever -- and it wasn't so bad until I had to fly back to Japan with stops in Bangkok and Seoul. Inner-ear hell.