I wonder if astronomy TACs take bungs??

Well, I don't know if I'm trying to be an idiot but while there are fifty-one other things I should be doing, I'm sitting up, going late into the night writing Gemini and ESO VLT proposals. While I was told today that I need model predictions, a better science driver and essetially a 50m telescope with MCAO, in the Spirit of Shanks (an extremely rare single malt, aged >25 years),
I'm gonna blow the hatches and go ahead anyway.

Other activites today included replying to Don Schneider's (PennState) generally minor comments on paper. Other big name on board!!