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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Job" data-source="post: 3296890" data-attributes="member: 37196">I apologize for the long pause in this campaign.  I have been beset with an unusual amount of difficulties since the start of the new year (Cthulhuian influences, perhaps?) and am only now starting to get things back to normal.  Here's just a few of the highlights of the past weeks:- My laptop suffered a severe crash and required 10 days for repair.  I received it back today.  During that period, I was able to access the internet for brief periods from other computers, but did not have much time for writing because...- My furnace died, turning my home into an icebox for a week.  I live in the northeastern US and even with two space heaters, I was only able to raise the temperature inside the house to 56 degrees Fahrenheit on some days.  The furnace repairmen couldn't just replace my 40-year-old furnace.  They instead spent days analyzing the house, then moved a beam and post, cut a new doorway in my wall, and then finally installed the new unit while I shivered.- My car's transmission died, requiring that I search for and purchase a new vehicle.  This took days of scanning advertisements, visiting car dealerships, test driving cars, then arranging financing.- I had a violent flu for a couple of days.Now that that's over, maybe I can back to normal?  Whatever that was...Hurm.</blockquote>