I think you may perhaps overestimate the people who visit me, vs. the people I go to visit and meet! I do have a fairly robust local social life, but I appear to be the weak link in it. [Silver, meet introvert. Introvert, meet Silver. It turns out that when we met face-to-face at OSB, you managed to become one of the excessively small list of people who get to bypass my introvert filters entirely. Other members of this list include many but not all of a certain group of email addresses, many of whom are Not Particularly Local.]

Pain is doing okay this morning.

Lack of cannonades is always an excellent outcome.