Ok, I'll tag onto this thread.

NaNoWriMo is about over. Looks like I'm going to make my 50000 words right under the wire. I promise to catch up on my posts this coming week. Promise. Pinky swear.

Except I just hit "submit" for the last time today and racked up 51663 words. Yay me!

Of course, the last two days I've been on Vicodin for my back and cold medicine for the re-surge of the crud I've had for two weeks now. I can't wait to see what drivel spewed forth from my drug-addled mind :)  And technically the book ain't finished, but it can wait. I'll be catching up tonight, with luck. At least I'll be starting to.

So yeah, sorry to all about being away from the site for so long. This NaNoWriMo thing was something I really really really wanted to do. It was important for me to finish, and I did, and I'm happy. Thank you for your patience, folks.

Hey guys, December is continuing to cause me troubles.  We're healthy in the house, but we lost a beloved pet on Thursday, Dec. 3rd.

I'm functioning again, but am pretty far behind.  I should be caught up by Wednesday.  If there is a need to NPC my character, please do, I really feel bad for holding up the games.

Well, this is a fine pickle I've gotten myself into.

About two weeks ago I tweaked my back. It's a recurring injury (an "acute lumbar strain", they call it), and it slowed me down quite a bit, especially hard on the heels of the chest cold I had. So I went to work last weekend and made until Friday night when my back went OUT. So for the past 8 days or so I've been alternating between bed, couch and...well, that's about it. It hurts to sit, and the drugs keep so damn foggy I couldn't have been all that productive had I tried.

This is the first night in a long time that I've felt up to sitting so I thought I'd drop y'all a note. I know the past 3-4 weeks I've had an ugly record for being on-site and for that I apologize. I'm prone to depression, as some of you know, and the combined punches of illness and bad back have laid me pretty low.

I am, however, committed to catching up in the very near future. It'll be sporadic, depending on how long I last in the chair before the need to lay down kicks in again, but I'll do my bestest, I swear. Please bear with me as I get my shit together.

Thanks.

Sorry to hear that Dave. Hope at least the drugs are good. Wheeee........

I have been very distracted myself by offline stuff. Might not get caught up till the weekend. 

I'm gettin' there.

I'm slooooowly catching up on everything. Bills, emails, work (tax season approacheth) and so on. I put out a couple of updates the other day, and I need to do one or two more, but I should be pretty much all better (fingers crossed) by week's end. Just in time for work

Every year I know that games grind to a halt around the holidays, and never understand why.  ...and naturally assume that it won't happen to me.  ...but every year December hits and something devours me.

I plan on catching up tomorrow, as far as I know I have no plans.  Come next week, I have two weeks of everyone home and anticipate falling behind again. 

Take care everyone and know that we all understand what a hard time of year this is for our hobby. 

PS. Feel better, Dave.

I think I'm all caught up on stories as of tonight, and I should be okay with keeping pace again, if at odd hours. Anyone know of anything else I should hit?

Hey there all.

Sit down, before you fall down, even your breathing out, and no heart attacks allowed. Yes, its really me.

It's been a hard couple of months and things aren't getting much better, but at least I have internet again. I've been without since before the holidays, which is why you've not seen hide nor hair of me.

I'm fighting through a lot of RL stuff, including health, money and depression, and often times its exceedingly hard to get out of bed in the mornings, but I've come to the realization that hiding wont make things better. I'll try to get caught up ASAP.  Please accept my apologies all around, my GM's, my players and most importantly my friends. I've missed you all greatly. Please be patient with me as I try to slip back into things.

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Not a problem... I'm just glad to hear you're still with us! 

...and I think you'll find that the holidays hit many of us hard, and you might not be as behind as you think you are. 

Glad to see you again!

Darren's back!

*happy dance*

Hey Guys,

Ever since the site went back up, things have been crazy for me.  School started this week and Xander broke his arm, and my stress level has been pretty high.

I plan on catching up tonight and tomorrow.  My apologies for being nearly useless as we reopened for business.  A huge thank you to KL for hitting all of our big issues.  ...and for those of you who have been emailing me for support through this, my sincere apologies for my delay in getting back to you, and general lack luster.

Next week should be better.  Dear Gawd, let next week be betters.

I just just got my technical issues squared away and can now post to the site.  I'll be catching up myself on all my games over the weekend.

I can vouch for that, if any of your GMs need a note.  :)

Thrak was very sharing with his technical problems through this.  *grin*  And we're so happy to have him back!