Jim, Data, The Count and all .. Sorry for not returning your messages. We've had some significant health issues and several financial problems in both my and my wife's family. Then a mind-boggling tragedy happened two days after returning from visiting our daughter in Colorado for Thanksgiving. Our son-in-law's Mom was killed in a horrific car accident while on a Christmas shopping trip to Sioux City Iowa. We are fairly certain that she went into a diabetic shock before crossing three lanes of traffic and the median strip and crashing head on into a long-haul truck.
Just before her car and the truck burst into flames, the trucker pulled her out. She was alive, but barely, and died two hours later. When our son-in-law was seven his Dad was killed by a drunk driver. His Mom was a widow at 29 with three children. She never re-married and in addition to raising the children all on her own in the small town of Osmond Nebraska ( population about 700) she took over the running of the family well-drilling business for thirty years before the day she died.
Going to Osmond for the funeral was a life-changing wake-up call for both my wife and I. I'm sure we will never be the same again and we've done lots of soul searching regarding how we are going to live out the rest of our days. Watching and discussing the progress of IDCC .. something I truly enjoyed or at least thought I did .. seemed more and more like just burning daylight at a point in my life when the amount of daylight I have left might not be all that much. So I just stopped doing it. There were several other activities in my life that I would now categorize as "burning daylight" and they've gone by the wayside as well.
So my absence has nothing to do with IDCC or IHUB, nor am I suggesting that those who still actively participate on the Board are just "burning daylight." I wish all of you nothing but the best when it comes to IDCC and your lives.
Regards,
Danny
