Thank you all for your kind words. I am up and kinda pumping again, albeit at a slower rate than I have hitherto been used to, drifting in and out of a torpid state. One more to go - the Big One - and we should be skipping gaily through the fields once more.
The moneychangers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply values more noble than mere monetary profit.