UPDATE

I'm back. Breathing normally, minimal back pain, everything else regular. Which is to say, crappy but bearable. Thanks for all the GOOD energy, well wishes, and bless you Jain for the donation.

I desperately need to catch up on work, but here's something I want to share. I was watching Gary Muledeer on Letterman, and he talked about how one of his first jobs was managing a movie theater in a small South Dakota town. He lost that job when Hitchcock's The Birds opened and Gary decided it would be fun in the middle of the movie to release six live pigeons from the balcony.

I laughed enough to make my ribs hurt. But good hurt, you know?