-- the knife's finally gone

Not me anymore!

Thanks for asking, everyone who sent me such nice notes about my earlier woe-is-me post. My throat's better and the knife in my back is finally gone. It went from a full-scale kitchen butcher knife to a paring knife, shrinking further to a pocketknife until it finally disappeared. Now I have to figure out what I did to bring it on and correct that so it NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. So I'm good. Have a great New Year, talk to you in 2009!