Actually managed to be somewhat productive over the past 24 hours:

Solidified some of the Europe timetable with my fellow travelers (Sabina and Po-Ling), including booking a room for the wedding and the travel plans for the two weeks surrounding the ceremony.

Did the requisite research and then picked up and started filling out an application for health insurance.Hopefully it will provide some comfort when I’m being run down by 2000 pounds of angry Spanish bull.

Went by the post office to fill out and submit my passport application, including taking a new picture; incidentally, the woman who took my picture makes the folks at the DMV look like Ansel Adams.

Juan seems to have lost his speech impediment courtesy of my recovered Walkman and we’re making steady progress into Tape 2. ¡Dios Mio!