Back in action

I want to apologize to everyone I've either been threading with or planning to thread with. As some of you may know, I've spent the last several years working to become a third mate for the US merchant marines. The seven part test I'm taking now is the last part of that process. I've passed five of them so far, and have the last two this upcoming Tuesday. As such, I've been going sort of crazy over them and I've been pretty brain dead for the last few days. This past weekend I went up to Dallas with my girlfriend to meet with my family for my birthday, and I've taken a little bit of time to recover. However I'm coming back into the swing of things. Again, I want to apologize for the unannounced absence. I didn't mean to leave y'all hanging, however I went into full on panic mode last weekend and never really left it.