I'm sad to report that my favorite author, Terry Pratchett, has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's. I own every single one of his Discworld novels and look forward to his future ones. Like he says in his post, "I am not dead" and "there's time for at least a few more books yet :o)". Amidst the suckiness of all this he still keeps his humour by titling his post "An Embuggerance". And Terry, I hope you get that high-end expert in brain chemistry.