I have just been noticing that Grateful has not had any input on the Forum lately and wondered how he was doing.....
I only just found this thread. Thank you for your concern. It started with a break for Christmas week, and then I became very busy with business as the New Year got going. This is great news as it follows a long work drought. In my life there is now more stress, less sleep, less time for forums ... and more income. Making things a big grim, the weather here in northeast USA has been extremely frigid for weeks (as I write this, it is minus 9 centigrade, or minus 17 if you include the wind chill). This has interfered with my daily walks and we have a serious case of Cabin Fever and I just recovered from a horrible 10-day-long head cold. Whine, whine.... It is my wife's birthday today (we are both now 60!), I gave her a Kindle and we should go to the movies later in the day.
....or did I miss an announcement that he was no longer going to be active?
Years ago I left an Internet forum, and notified members by posting about it. This was immediately seized upon as "attention seeking" -- not to mention the usual gloats of "don't let the door hit you in the backside as you leave" and so forth. Ever since then, if I take a break from an Internet forum I have just stopped posting, without notice. So if I disappear again, it does not necessarily mean anything at all....
During my absence, a certain virtual couple appears to have been outed as fabricators. I must admit I was totally taken in at the time, and even still have some trouble believing that they were not real. (I am even more puzzled as to the motivation or any sense that there was any point to it all.) As a former journalist (for a dozen years) I really should have smelled a rat. "In my day" we did not have the Internet to contend with! "Fact checking" seems to have become a lot harder than it used to be.
A very belated Happy New Year to all. I think that 2018 will be better than last year for me, if only because my 2017 was tainted forever by the T2 diagnosis last February!