Since I've been gone so long it seemed fitting to write one of these. I also don't have a homethread (unless I made one I pretty much never used and then forgot) so this seems the best place to write this. My sudden departure from the forums was without warning and driven by multiple factors, a perfect storm you could say.  The main factor was that my family was evicted and had to pack quite rapidly and move. This real life event took precedence over everything else. And then I haven't had