Obviously, a lot of time has been spent the past few days going over things from the past to paint a better picture of whatever the future is here. One thing stands out among all the others. A lot of people suspected this arrangement wasn’t going to work. It would appear a lot of people were right.

The bowl preparation was, by so many indications reported and otherwise, a mess and almost a willful mess. Right then, a very convincing argument could be made that this wasn’t going to work. I supply what I wrote after the bowl, not to say I was right — again, I thought it might work — but because some of the things said, and inferred to me for my use in the story, are entirely topical right now.