The Amazon Kindle is startlingly easy to replace.

Yes, it was that kind of weekend – but the Kindle people were actually pretty matter-of-fact about the whole thing: “Holding down the button didn’t work, huh?  OK, we’ll mail you a new one: figure you’ll get it Wednesday.  Send us the old one within thirty days of you getting the new one and it’s all good.”

I figured that I was going to have to give them an argument… but then, I and the rest of the e-reader demographic are kind of a cash cow to these people, aren’t we? – Not that I mind being actually treated as a cash cow, which is a bit of a refreshing change when it comes to e-commerce.

*Really* back, now.

Free advice: don’t ignore your gallbladder. Seriously, I expect them to yank the dang thing out in the near future; but at least you bounce back quickly from an any particular attack.

No, I’m not going to bore people with the details of my medical issues, particularly since – compared to some of the folks out there with chronic problems mine are pretty much at the level of ‘interesting quirk.’ But I imagine that Sunday’s posts might have been slightly alarming.