Brother - I so love your blow-by-blow accounts of everything that is going on in the space! No one has their finger on the pulse of things quite like you do...

Now, it may simply be a "meno" inspired moment of grammer gymnastics- but when I read the often repeated phrase of your's "sort of speak" I bite my tongue in refrain of correcting you...

So far as I can tell, the proper phrase is "so to speak" - for whatever that's worth... Not much I'm sure - but it is what it is... Love you, bro!