The Week in Review

Wherein I post some updates and links I hope you'll find interesting …

I almost died. Well, not really, but I felt like I was going to shed this mortal coil. I woke up before daybreak last Tuesday to the most God-awful pain ever. I'm usually pretty good with pain. In the words of Dalton from Road House, "Pain don't hurt." But this was bad enough that I rushed to the E.R. where I proceeded to beg for mercy … pain killers … a sharp blow to the back of the skull … anything to ease the pain. The...