I haven't been able to get on LP for some time, a lot of things have been going on.  My girlfriend of many years passed away in September of cancer.  It was tough watching what it did to her.  She always enjoyed a good meal and the cruel part of her cancer was that it really limited what she could eat.  When she first got the diagnosis they told her she might have 2 to 6 years but it ended up being 16 months from that diagnosis to the end.  And when she went into hospice they told her she might be there a month which was pretty accurate.  She enjoyed going to the casinos and playing the lottery too.  When she was in hospice she had weakened so much she didn't even have the strength to do the scratch offs any more.  So now I have to work on taking care of settling her estate and moving on with life.  Hopefully things will start feeling normal soon, I hope the holidays aren't too rough.