This new year of 2012 has started off with quite a bang for me. After extensive phone calls and tests here in Lake Charles, LA, I flew to Tampa, FL and had back surgery. It was a success and here I am 13 days post-op, with an incision scar barely one inch long and no back pain!!! That deserves at least three exclamation points.

Now the bad news. I've lost my Kindle. No, it's not somewhere in Florida. It went missing before the trip. Today I finally gave up looking for it and had a chat with an Amazon.com rep. who cancelled the account so no one can charge books. All that's left for me to do is call my credit card company and tell them what happened. Sigh. I loved my Kindle. It was so easy to get spoiled.

If any of you reading this want information about the wonderful place in Florida where they do minimally invasive back surgery, just leave a message for me on this post. Oh, and if you do wind up in Tampa, the food and the ambiance is really good at Bahama Breeze restaurant.