I've slipped back into a lack of posting again. Some of it is a residual from my recovery this spring from surgery (physical therapy can really be draining), and a lot is due to being really busy in the day job (finding highly rare substances like dilithium is not easy), but in the end those are incomplete explanations. What should be really embarrassing is that I got access to Nick Loman and colleagues' comparison of benchtop sequencers several days before it published, and here it is weeks later and I'm finally getting around to covering it.