Contusion

 "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell

Reality Check

 "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" - Sophocles

Mid-November decompression - Updated

 "Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases.  Neither is it merely the opportunity to chose between a set of alternatives.  Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices - and then the opportunity to choose." - C. Wright Mills

Still here, just busy.

 "Don't seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you'll have a calm and happy life." - Epictetus