On the reading front, I'm back to Cherryh (now into volume 2 of "The Faded Sun") after finishing my temporary detour to John Varley's Gaea trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon), which insisted they were a perfect follow-up to Cherryh's Chanur novels (probably because of the Titanides ... a marvelous fictional species!).
The ol' brain thing is obviously very much in an alien interface mood and I suspect I'll still have that theme in mind when I finish with the mri ...