Twelve Sturgeon volumes only took me eight years and I'm still not done?

I just wanted to say that a couple of weeks ago, I finished reading the 12th and final (as far as I knew) volume of The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon.
I started reading them in September, 2001 when I got a couple softcover versions of the books for half price at (where else?) Half-Price Books in Columbus, Ohio.
I got stuck on Vol. 3, "Killdozer," sometime in 2002. I didn't pick it up again until late 2004. I remember having to shove myself through the story "Killdozer," which has caused me to pause reading several Sturgeon collections. Strange how you remember some things: I finished it in a bed and breakfast in Ireland during my honeymoon.
I started buying some of the rest of the books in 2005-2006 when I still lived in Ohio. I remember ordering them from Amazon.com, and being unhappy because I had to pay more to get hardcovers. I really just wanted to read the stories, not keep the collectable, and more expensive, versions of the books.
I finished buying the first 11 books sometime in mid-2008, when I got Vol. 8, Bright Segment, used.
For some reason, at the time, Amazon had them all new, except that one. It's still not in stock, and a used copy costs $249 now.
(If I were you, I wouldn't pay $249 for that book. I'll sell it to you for half.)
I paid $35 from a used bookseller through Barnes and Noble's Web site. To date, I think it's the only volume I paid cover price for, and that one was used. Is that irony?
While reading Vol. 8 I got stuck on a story called, "To Here and the Easel," for something like a year and half. When I finally got through that story and that volume -- during my two-week stay at Fort Dix, N.J. in September -- it was only a matter of months before I finished them all.
Vol. 12 was delivered to my house in October, shortly after it was published. That caused me to finish reading Vol. 10, which by then I was half-way through. (I wasn't very good at reading them in order even when I had a run of consecutive volumes.)
After that, I started and finished Vol. 12, which I thought was the last one. I read that last page just after Christmas.
When I got to the end, I was very satisfied to have finished them all. I felt like I had accomplished something. However, I also felt like people often feel after Christmas: Nothing else to look forward to.
Reading that series was a long process, during which I always knew I had a book I should be reading sitting on my shelf.
I thought I had read them all. I was left with a question I could not answer:
Now what?
So, today, just goofing around, I went to the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust Web site. I discovered that I was not done after all.
From the news section of that site:
Volume 13, which will be the last volume in the series, will be titled "Why Dolphins Don't Bite" and should appear in October, 2010.
Now I feel like I am at a concert waiting for the encore.