Ah... coffee. I will miss European coffee, but my kidneys will probably be happy to have the time to recover. Unless they´ve grown so accustomed to the constant intake that they can no longer function without it...

Today... Ah, mail-order. You get the weeks of anticipation and the joy of gifts, even self-purchased gifts.

Thus the Porsche-related doldrums were recently shaken by the long-awaited arrival of the new Bruce Campbell book, ¨Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way¨ and by my custom-made Nikes from nikeid.com.

Now, the book was fine. Short, and fluffy. Not actually fluffy, I didn´t, you know, have the urge to pet it, but "fluffy" in terms of content.

The shoes, though... well I have to say I thought it would be a ridiculous extravagance to order custom Nikes, but they´re no more expensive than regular Nikes and they turned out to be amazing. They´re so much better than I thought they´d turn out. To look at them it is as though Nike really makes a model called the ¨Nike Baritone", but I have the only pair.

We have found a lot of great stuff to do in both Ibiza and Mallorca, especially Mallorca. If nothing else, you can bake in the sun.

For someone my size I recommend about 350 degrees for an hour, baste, turn, then another half hour. Slice into sections, serves 12.

We´re all really starting to feel the "home-stretch" vibe, perhaps prematurely. 48 days left as I sit here at an Internet room in Ibiza.

Coming soon: I just had new headshots taken, at an old castle in Mallorca. I might post some here to help me decide between them.