It gets to us all at some point, doesn't it? I'm sorry that my largest block of it occurs pretty well in-line with being granted the amazing honor of SSRL (I swear it's a coincidence and not the cause of inactivity). I suppose I should go ahead and announce I'm not dead and all that jazz.
So why have I been so busy? Well for starters, my last script work, which sadly never made it to full public release, ended about 6 and a half months ago, which miraculously coincides with the time that my girlfriend moved in with me (the final status of said project is attached here: https://villavu.com/forum/showthread...65#post1348765 maybe I'll update it someday and release, or maybe I'll just do something else. It honestly probably only needs color/map updates.). That's probably less of a coincidence.
My girlfriend moving in didn't really cause me to be so inactive here on the forums, however. I definitely at least wanted to keep helping people, but the rest of life got in the way. As it stands, we've both come to really dislike where we currently live (Minnesota) and have been looking to move. For the first time in... honestly my whole life, I've had to actually apply to jobs. From the perspective of any other field of work, that probably sounds weird, but as an engineer, we are constantly poached from one company to the next. However almost all of that happens within the confines of maybe 50 miles or so. When you want to leave the state, you need to go much further than that, so I've had to hunt down companies and actively start pursuing them instead. This has taken far more time than I ever thought it would, and has really drained me of desire to do much else. Similarly, we've spent a lot of time picking cities and start the dreaded apartment-hunting. The good news is that I'm pretty well set on most of that now. I'll be moving out to Seattle, Washington at the end of August. The bad news is that we still have to spend a few weeks next month actually finding the apartment we'll be moving into, and then I'll have to drive about 8000-9000 miles as part of finding it and actually moving. Since a lot of what I've been doing will drop off in the coming weeks, chances are I'll be able to be more active once again and actually contribute to this wonderful community. I look forward to enjoying my spare time more than I have been.
Until then, I hope I remain active enough to at least answer any questions on this chain and possibly start up some new conversations here.
Hope everyone else has been doing well and having a good time!
-Kevin