Some of you already know this, but now that the Christmas holidays are over, I wanted to let you know why it is that Tarma and I haven't been around a lot lately.
As I previously posted, my father was diagnosed with Stage 4 esophageal cancer back in March. To make a long story short, he died on the night of the 6th, and the funeral was on the 14th, so things have been completely on their beam ends around here. Early on, things were way too hectic and emotionally on end to keep up with Internet posting (especially since the topic isn't one I really want to discuss at great length in any event), and then later, basically I didn't want to dump this on people before the Christmas holidays (which of course were pretty subdued for us).
So, yeah, that's what's been up.
