This Blog Post Is Dedicated To...

...all the people who stopped by to visit me while I was in the hospital. 

There's no way to get around the fact that being in the hospital is inherently boring. And while I had to be there, the folks who took time out of their lives -- in some cases, significant amounts of time -- to visit me didn't. Please know I appreciated it, very much.* 


* A co-worker who visited said he was there because some years earlier he'd had his own hospital stay and what struck him most was not the people he expected to visit who didn't, but the people he didn't expect to visit who did. He made a really good point. The advantage in my case is that I didn't really expect many people to visit, so the fact that so many did was striking. And, again, thanks to each and every one of you, expected or otherwise.