Machinist, author and tuner Jewell Hendricks is out of the hospital and easing himself back into the world. Hendricks was seriously injured in a street crash--one he has no memory of--last Summer. he spent months in the hospital and almost died "a few times" in the process. Hendricks powered through his physical rehabilitation therapy and is getting around quite nicely now, he reports.

His email address is here. For those of you who still enjoy the use of an analog communicating device, his phone works as well: 707.502.5543.