I'm sure that you and Jan appreciate the outpour, your prayers, and concern over your

brief stay in the hospital. Now, it was all over social media, and would you like to just tell us what happened?

Well, Jan and I went on a little four-day vacation to Florida, and we both contracted coronavirus, and mine was compounded by pneumonia.

And it was the pneumonia, I think, that really laid me low, and put me in the hospital until they could get me through that.

And then I came home, and now we're both recuperating, regaining strength every day. We're taking it easy, so it's not to over extend ourselves, but virtually back to normal, I'd say.

And you just went to a clinic because you had some congestion, just a few symptoms, and they ended up there suggesting that you go ahead and get further checked out.

It was just a walk-in clinic here in the area. We just thought we'd get some antibiotics or something from them.

We had no idea that it was severe, and so they were the ones that advised me to go to the hospital, and so we did.

And again, we didn't think they would check us in, but they did, and so I wound up being there for five days.

You know, Bill, you work from your home office, and so your chances of getting COVID were much lower.

Did you ever expect that this would catch up with you and that you would get it?

I really didn't, Kevin, because I'm so sequestered here working at home, I just didn't expect it.

We've been two years, you know, without incident. But going on this trip to Florida proved to be an exposure to the virus.

And you're feeling good now, and doing well.

Okay. You know, you missed a conference or two a couple of occasions because of this.

I think both of them were on historical atom. You were able to attend one, and you weren't able to attend one.

That's right. There was a conference in late April that I had to cancel.

It was a conference based on a four views on the historical atom book that I'm participating in.

It's edited by Ken Keithley, who's a professor at southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

And it features Ken Sparks, who is taking the view that there was no historical atom.

Then I take the view of the mytho historical atom.

And then Andrew Locke takes the view of the recent genealogical atom popularized by Joss Swamidas.

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