I was wondering why the greeting.. I'm very sorry to hear of your wife's passing my deepest sympathies to you.. hope everything went smoothly during your surgery.. I too have not been around much for several years..but I am getting back into fishing I just been feeling a deep urge for a while now..I wanna do while I still can.. only 46 in July..but so many not much older than I are passing that I want to get some yrs in...solid yrs... hope your feeling the urge to forge on soon as well..