I apologize for this, but there's just no way in any conception of a
post-mortality punishment realm that I'll be able to get the next issue out
this weekend as originally scheduled.

Thanks to a Microsoft patch that our Information Security office said
_must_ be deployed on a short schedule, the fit hit the shan, and it has
been an absolute Category 3 (at least) coprohurricane for the past
week-and-a-half. There have been days in the past week that I literally
came home at 17:15, dug a hole in my blankets, crawled in, and pulled it in
behind me - which meant losing a good three-to-four hours of work on the
magazine each time.

It looks like I've found the shovel, however, and it's being deployed as I
write this; I'll know for sure tomorrow.

(Technical summary: The problem was not and is not the MS patch and InfoSec
was correct about the need to deploy. The problem was due to a combination
of (a) the tightness of Group Policy on our workstations, (b) our
organizational failure to upgrade our print servers on a timely basis to
use Mode 4 drivers, and (c) testing on a subset of workstations that _had_
been upgraded to point to our Mode 4 print server. We have (badly)
transferred all untransferred printers to Mode 4 servers and cut over to
using them; the principal issue at this point is that Microsoft Edge and
Google Chrome seem not to be acknowledging the change.)

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