Excellent ticker, but all my prior experiences with winning haven't left me feeling melancholy.
A suggestion:
Compile all of your covid writings from the past 3 years into a book. Posterity and yet unborn historians would find it valuable.
A question:
I'd like to buy you a fine bottle of scotch (or whatever you want), as a show of thanks. Is there a local liquor store I can contact, or a PO box where I can mail you a gift card?