Boy, you'd think I'd dropped off the face of the earth, after that injury last year. 

As it turned out, I had what some doctors like to call an Injury of The Olds.  I had, through a series of misadventures, managed to cough myself into a herniated disc in my neck, which I then aggravated with certain activities. After a lot of drugs (a LOT), and a good deal of very expensive physical therapy, my neck and shoulder are behaving themselves again.  This is a very good thing.

Despite the injury, and the downtime while I was working hard to recover,