As it turns out, I finished #8 in the 2009 ARRL DX CW contest (SOAB Assisted), which is #6 EU I believe. This link tells how it went. Results will be out soon.
The closest I came to enjoying the hobby was letting the amp run idle for a few hours this morning, launch the shack PC so XP can get its dose of updates after 6 weeks and reorder the coaxes in the garage. Reorder that is, not ‘connect to relay box’…