Here at Gregor.us your proprietor and his family have been dragging the last 3 weeks under the strain of typical illnesses, that appear to have swept out of the local children’s population(?) and affected at least one person in most of the families we know. Oh, we’ve seen it all. First it was a very bad flu-like cold at the start off the month. Then came a nasty stomach bug. To top things off, one of our own kids now has Lyme Disease. (by the way, this is easily curable when detected early and is not serious. Though, when you live in New England, named conditions such as these always seem to recall starving Pilgrims huddled in Winter, without a proper supply of vegetables.) The good news is that we seem to have come through the worst of it now. That said, I’ve been playing injured the last few weeks, and I’ve only been able to post barely half the material I’d intended for May. I’ve got stacks of data and drafts for my California series, which is not complete yet–not to my satisfaction, at least. And now the end of May has arrived. Accordingly I am going to extend the California series into June, along with the usual posting on oil, energy and the economy. Speaking of which, I see that both US Treasury Bonds and the price of oil have used my brief absence to make some big moves. Sneaky. Very, very sneaky.
–Gregor