Hey, I'm alive.

So, it's been a little over two months since I last posted, but I'm making a concerted effort to catch up. It's rough. Not only have I not posted here, I haven't gone to any forums (not even ENWorld), I haven't heard a single podcast, and I haven't even done much emailing.

So yeah, I basically dropped off the planet.

It was unintentional I assure you, but things just became a huge mess after my accident. My broken thumb made it a pain (literally) to type, and both my shoulders nd my knee ended up being a lot worse than I had at first thought. After a couple dozen X-rays and several hours spent in MRIs, it looks like there is finally a solid plan for continuing on my treatment. My thumb is finally starting to heal (though whether it'll ever bend again or stop hurting is up for grabs), and I'm going into a series of surgeries on my knee and both shoulders starting after the beginning of the year. I chickened out and took the less-effective, but easier surgery path to start with. The doctor says there's a 20% or so chance of relapse as opposed to the 100% recover rate of the more complicated procedure, but he also says the harder procedure will make me completely unable to take basic care of myself for a little while, and I'm not ready to go that route yet.

In the mean time, I have these injections that hurt like heck, but are supposed to see me through to the surgeries, and physical therapy twice a week (plus a home regiment to keep the muscles from weakening).

So yeah, basically it sucks, and hopefully you can see why I've been gone. It's a combination of difficulty doing it, no free time, and a general lack of enthusiasm for much of anything.

Interestingly it hasn't stopped or even really slowed down my gaming, so I'll spend a bit of time catching everything up to date on that front in the next few days. One nice thing about gaming is that I can work on it regardless of how bad I'm doing physically. I spend hours plotting stuff out while I'm doing therapy, waiting around in doctors' offices, or just sitting at work.

All in all it's been a great distraction.