Silence means...

Usually silence on a blog like this means one of several things:
Increased busyness
More stress
Sick kids

In my case, it is all three. But the good news is that tomorrow is a long-planned ACL (knee) surgery. When you're the father of several small kids, the only real way to take a vacation is to schedule a surgery. Although I'm not looking forward to the pain and rehab, I'm very much looking forward to being put to sleep and having nothing to do in the hospital for two days.