Who the hell's that?

Had my annual dental exam today. Sat in the waiting room, leafing through an Air Force magazine, and I hear,

"Lieutenant Colonel Gottrich?"

I mean, I'd changed my phone message, updated my e-mail title, said it answering a couple calls... but to hear it, out loud, from someone else, in the aural flesh as it were, was just surreal.

Surrealier was coming home and my son greeting me with a salute and a "Hello, Colonel!"