A Christmas Debacle

Christina has already given a brief summary of our Christmas & New Year "holidays", to which I'd like to add a couple more highlights:

- I also fell down the stairs. It turns out that a single @$$cheek is ill-equipped to absorb the impact of a mass of 200 pounds falling 6 feet onto hardwood floor.
- I now have a peg-leg: while I was in the hospital in Germany, my leg was immobilized in a cast, so my knee stiffened up and my thigh muscles atrophied. Result: a skinny leg, with a gnarly stitch job [I think they let the newbie doctor sew up the wound -- it looks like needlework done by an uncoordinated 5th grader] that doesn't bend. I see lots of painful physical therapy in my future.
- While in Germany, everybody [excluding me, because I was in the hospital] developed really bad colds that haven't gone away yet.

Here's hoping we've hit rock-bottom and are now on the upswing.