I'm getting to the point where I know that I'm being repetitive, and I know that I sort of have to be, but that I feel the need to predicate my repetitiveness with a self-indulgent recognition of that repetitiveness, so that if you, the reader, also noticed that I have been repetitive, you will hopefully, at least, know that I know that I am repeating myself and you will, therefore, give me a pass on the need to once again repeat myself. So: