I'm guessing everyone wonders where I've been.

I was busy with travel for work and managing pain in my back in July and Aug. Everything crashed in late August while I was returning from Italy. Since then I've been at home riding a pain tidal wave that even Morphine doesn't touch. The short version is a herniated disk between my c6 and c7 that was pinching the nerve into my left arm causing severe nerve pain. Surgery yesterday to replace the disk with a synthetic. Up walking around pain free within hours after the surgery and out of the hospital and home now. I'll need to take it easy for a couple weeks, but I hope to be back on the water by late Oct or early Nov.

DB