Summer broke my head this year, I swear. We've been working on The Merry Wives of Windsor, which is Shakespeare's silliest play and turned out loads of fun. We performed it outside in a park on the Upper West Side for the last week of July and first week of August, and for a couple of days there it was kinda brutally hot. Flat temperatures in the high 90s and Feels-Like temperatures up to 110° (that's 43.3 in C). My brain fried and I have hardly been on SteamGifts for weeks. I'm daffy with all the hot.

We're back indoors right now, halfway through our two-week run, and it's been even hotter. We have modest-at-best air conditioning inside. After each show my costume shirt is so sweat-soaked I might have been in a pool wearing it.

Anyway, I've been a stranger in these parts! Time to start catching up again. This key is an old key and it really should be perfectly fine - but with publishers these days, who can tell? If you have trouble with it, please let me know.