I just wanted to mention that despite the whole toe thing, my plan is coming together, though more slowly than I'd hoped.  Too late for some things I suppose, if that hope ever had mattered.  Still, my weight is coming down, I'm getting visibly thinner, and my blood pressure is lowering again. 

Still working on reading though.  That list has gotten insanely long.  I honestly think that if I lost internet access, my library card was stolen, my legs were cut off, and I could live forever, I'd still never run out of things to read.  Or at least, not for many, many lifetimes. 

I'd better hurry along then.

- Jim