Breaking a Take. Well, as it turns out, we're a little short this week, so... we'll take a bit of a sabbatical. Got more stuff coming up, but it needs a little more time in the oven. It didn't help that I spent at least half of last week setting up my new PC either. Anyway, our apologies. And we'll get something done for next week. See you all then. -Stig Høgset.
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