Look at me, all alive and more or less lucid.  The giant project is still giant, but it has been divided into (ever so slightly more) reasonable pieces, and I have a plan.  Having a plan is key.  It helps you explain what went wrong when you find yourself in a back alley in Ecuador with a live chicken under one arm, a book of Greek philosophy under the other, and a dead flashlight clutched between your teeth.  If you hadn't had a plan that would just be confusing.  If you'd had a plan at one point, you've at least [...]