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Ugh.  Lots of travel in the past 24 hours, but for a dear friend, so I feel I shouldn't complain... but with a number of things in limbo recently, the endless road did nothing to quiet my mind.  Worrisome worse-case-scenarios kept popping into my head instead of solutions, despite me trying to push them out.  Time for bed, where sleep will hopefully quiet the mind for a bit.