Right, then, as I may have mentioned, I'm a runner.  I've done two marathons so far (2003 Dublin, 2005 London), and I can now say that I've got a charity place for the 2009 London Marathon, for which I'm already training.

I'm running for Shelter, the very excellent housing and homelessness charity, and I've agreed to raise 1700 pounds minimum (about $3300).  I'm not worried at all, because you all out there are going to help me, now aren't you?

I'll be trailing this ad infinitum in the coming months, doing email whip-rounds, dropping hints here and there, but let's call this a polite opening.  If you'd like to visit my fund-raising page and donate to a brilliant good cause, well, then, that would karmically be very good for you, now, wouldn't it?  I'm only thinking of you here...

More anon (but visit the page).