it will rock us

well, Carl and girlfriend are okay, - they're in Okinawa - quite some way to the South of the Japanese mainland - but our thoughts are with them and any friends and family of theirs who may be in the heart of it - and our thoughts are with Seb, who's shaken but still with us -- and also with the People of Japan - and all with an extra twinge of empathy on account of now living in a place where the earth regularly trembles (i've yet to feel one as yet, apparently there was one shortly after we got here last July but we were still in a hotel waiting for our wordlies to arrive by truck and so actually in a swimming pool when the tremor came)...